China will meet bullying with bloodshed, Xi Jinping says

He received the biggest applause, however, when he described the party as the force that had restored China’s dignity after taking power amid civil war in 1949.

China will not allow itself to be bullied and anyone who tries will face ‘broken heads and bloodshed in front of the iron Great Wall of the 1.4 billion Chinese people’, President Xi Jinping has said (Ng Han Guan/AP)

China will not allow itself to be bullied and those who try face “broken heads and bloodshed in front of the iron Great Wall of the 1.4 billion Chinese people”, President Xi Jinping has said.

Speaking at a mass gathering to mark the centenary of the ruling Communist Party, Mr Xi emphasised the party’s role in bringing China to global prominence and saying it would never be divided from the people.