cliff conan in the studio clifford thanks very much for coming in where you reported from china for a number of years you've covered the so-called two sessions a number of times as well this app is meant to be for study purposes is that all that is stored well i think there's always a bit of a link between study and propaganda and in this particular case we've been talking with xi jinping thought and how it's it's now the central ethos of the of the congress party and everyone is being encouraged to study it more so it has a very strong propaganda function very much like the report mentioned a bit like the little red book this is now the little red up in the sixty's you had people waving the literal book and now i think that we're looking at the little red up in the standard looking it up pose that people have so i think it's very much in the tradition i think the choice of technology i'm just not the first time such technology has been used what is behind using these kinds of methods i think that it's a way of getting the message out to as many people as possible just as the little r