China's Xi Opens Communist Party Plenum, Aims for Firm Governance Measures
Xi seeks tighter discipline and loyalty as officials face a deeper anti-corruption drive and possible record-low turnout from purges, analysts said.
- China's ruling Communist Party will gather 300 officials in Beijing from Monday to Thursday for the fifth plenum, a closed-door meeting focused on tightening internal discipline and advancing rigorous party self-governance.
- President Xi Jinping continues an internal discipline campaign introduced in 2014, as millions within China's bureaucracy have faced investigation under the anti-corruption effort.
- The New York-based Asia Society Policy Institute estimates only 77.4% of the original 2022 cohort would attend, the lowest at any post-Mao plenum, with three of the 24 Politburo members elected in 2022 already removed.
- Ruby Osman, a senior policy adviser on China at London's Tony Blair Institute, said the plenum signals "system-wide changes Xi wants ahead of a competitive 2027 Party Congress," rather than individual personnel decisions.
- Xi aims to put cadre power in "an institutional cage" as the conclave precedes the 21st National Party Congress, where experts widely expect him to secure a fourth term.
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China's Xi opens Communist Party plenum, aims for firm governance measures
China's Communist Party began a four-day meeting of its highest-ranking members on Monday targeting concrete measures for "full and rigorous party self-governance", as President Xi Jinping seeks to reinforce his authority and enforce ideological uniformity.
Three hundred members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party meet in the Jingxi Hotel, a Soviet-style hotel in Beijing, on governance, fight against corruption, loyalty to central leadership
Monday begins a closed four-day meeting in which the CCP will seek to strengthen internal discipline
President Xi Jinping and China's senior officials began on Monday 26 October in Beijing an important meeting on the governance of the ruling Communist Party (PCC), one year from its congress, said the Chinese New Agency.
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