At a group discussion among the National People's Congress (NPC) delegation from Shanghai on Thursday, three deputies had a small debate on how many rounds of applause broke out amid Premier Li Keqiang's government work report a day earlier. The number, varying from 46 to 48 to 52, is almost twice that of previous years.
I think the backstory here is that on previous occasions applause would have been uniform. Anyway, it's amazing how narrow the gap is between 'shooting the delegate who stops clapping first' and 'Prime Minister's speech at the Party Conference'.
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