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A banner celebrating the opening of the 18th Communist Party Congress is displyed in front of the statue of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong at the Tianfu Square in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a weeklong congress in Beijing on Thursday.(Photo By Feng Zi/Color China Photo/AP Images)