Today’s Essential Eight items:

1. Guideline to strengthen and improve ideological and political work

2. Xi Jinping Thought student reader coming this school year

3. Modernizing grassroots governance

4. Data review and approval needed before overseas listings

5. Fifth anniversary of South China Sea arbitral ruling

6. Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng on US-China relations

7. 20th meeting of the central committee for deepening overall reform

8. Tencent’s turn with the regulators

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