CHINA-INTERNAL: 7TH PLENUM OF 18TH CCP CC PRIOR TO 19TH PARTY CONGRESS

On October 14, 2017, China's authoritative official news agency Xinhua issued the text of the 7th CCP CC Plenum held from October 11 to 14, 2017, in Beijing. It was attended by 191 full members of the CC and 141 Alternate Members. Members of the CCP CC Central Discipline Inspection Commission and its committees and "responsible comrades" attended the meeting which was presided over by CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping who delivered "an important speech". The Plenum confirmed that the CCP's National Congress will be held in Beijing on October 18, 2017. It discussed the work of the Central Political Bureau presented by Xi Jinping. The Plenum also discussed and adopted the Reports of the National People's Congress (NPC), the Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) and discussed and adopted the "Chinese Communist Party Constitution (amendment)." PBSC Member Liu Yunshan presented the draft of the "Chinese Communist Party Constitution (Amendment)" to the Plenum. The Plenary "fully affirmed the work of the Central Political Bureau" and "agreed that the past year, the Central Political Bureau held high socialism with Chinese characteristics", "comprehensively implemented the spirit'"of the Party, and "Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping theory, the "Three Represents", the scientific outlook on development" and "General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech series and the new concept of governance, new ideas and new strategies". 

(Comment: The plenum Communique was lengthier than that issued by Hu Jintao prior to the 18th Party Congress. It stressed national defence power, overall national power, international influence and the people's feeling of having benefitted. Foreign relations received greater attention than in the past. There was, however, no clarity whether Xi Jinping's name would be attached to the 'new concept of governance' proposed to be incorporated in the Party Constitution.) 







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