This year 34 private entrepreneurs have been chosen as delegates to the Congress, up from just 17 at the 17th Party Congress in 2007, according to statistics revealed by state-run ChinaEconomicWeekly.
But Sadhana Srivastava, in an article in India's Economic and Political Weekly, has recalculated both India's and China's figures for the year 2000 to make a fairer comparison.