Chinese Communist party meeting opens

A soldier stops photographs being taken outside the Jingxi hotel in Beijing, believed to be the venue for the Chinese Communist party's secretive annual meeting Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images A policemen tells an elderly man, who was writing characters on the street, to move on Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images A soldier guards an entrance to the Jingxi hotel. Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP A woman walks past the Beijing home of Liu Xia, the wife of the jailed dissident and Nobel peace prize winner, Liu Xiaobo. The banner reads: "Sorry for the inconvenience due to the construction." Photograph: David Gray/Reuters Police patrol Tiananmen Sqaure near a portrait of Mao Zedong Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP Police keep watch on a Beijing street as the Communist party meeting opens Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images Security cameras installed in Tiananmen Square Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP