Hong Kong daily on Beijing's preparations for 16th Communist Party Congress.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

for Beijing's big show", published by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post (Business Post supplement) on 5 November

Liu Guang is a journalist who specializes in environmental reports, many of them critical of the authorities. But he has not been busy these past three weeks.

"My boss told me to take a month off before the congress," he says with a loud laugh. "They do not want any bad news. It is yi da pian hao xingshi [a great space all looking good]."

So it is in Beijing a few days before the 16th Communist Party Congress, which opens on Friday [8 November].

The purpose of the …