Many Chinese see business, society and politics as dominated by a party-connected elite and wonder if Xi, as the son of a revolutionary veteran, has the political will to take on entrenched interests.

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He was something of a rebel: He had dared to take on the long-entrenched Institutional Revolutionary Party (known by its Spanish initials, PRI), a mix of big business, labor and political bosses that served its own interests instead of the people's.

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