"Socialism with Chinese characteristics" is the system that governs one-fifth of humanity. But what does it mean?

China's political system is rife with contradictions. It is an authoritarian one-party state, which boasts that it holds democratic elections at grassroots level.

China's cities seem to be an exercise in rampant capitalism - yet its leaders are Communist.

So just who does China's Communist party represent nowadays, and what do people feel about them? Louisa Lim has been investigating the state of the body politic in China. She starts this report in rural Anhui province in central China.

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