Analysis: Xi Jinping resuscitates Hu Jintao's parting words
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
In a surprise move with political reverberations at home and abroad, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stressed the need to firmly maintain "scientific," "democratic" and "law based" policymaking.
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