Ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress that begins on Sunday, October 16, 2022, authorities in China have arrested a million criminal suspects, curbed travel to Beijing to keep Covid out, and deployed an army of neighborhood monitors.
Pictures: The New York TimesImages of Xi Jinping on display at the military museum under the slogan: “Inspiring the Three Armed Forces to Forge Ahead,” in Beijing, September 2, 2022.
Portraits of China’s famed leader Mao Zedong, left, and and current President Xi Jinping hang in a souvenir shop for tourists near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, October 11, 2022.
Pedestrians walk past a display set up ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress that begins on Sunday, in Beijing on October 16, 2022.
A bus passenger looks towards increased security measures Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 13, 2022.
A guard at a gate for a new exhibition called “Bravely Advancing Toward a New Era,” in Beijing on October 13, 2022, ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress that begins on Sunday.
Neighborhood security volunteers keep watch on a street in Beijing on October 12, 2022.
People in protective gear on a street in Beijing, where Covid restrictions have tightened drastically ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress meet.