Tokyo | China has selected almost 2300 top Communist Party delegates tasked with appointing Xi Jinping as leader for a controversial third term next month, as well as overseeing the selection of his top advisers for the next five years.

The delegates were chosen from the country’s 96 million Communist Party members to attend the 20th party congress, a once-in-five-year meeting which selects China’s leader and its cabinet, starting on October 16.