China’s new revolutionary?

THE age of revolution is not over, at least not in China. At the five-yearly congress of its Communist Party that opens in Beijing on September 12th, China's party boss, Jiang Zemin, will lay out his manifesto for China's economy in the 21st century. After years of high growth and even faster-rising expectations, the economy now needs another big overhaul if China's fifth of humanity is to prosper. But as the economy changes, so must its politics. What will soon be one of the world's largest economies is on the verge of a third revolution, more complex than Mao's self-preserving turmoil, more far-reaching than Deng's economic modernisations.