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19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
October 31 , 2017
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- The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing, China on 18 October 2017.
- China is holding a once-every-five-years meeting
- The Party Congress will close on October 24 this year, after which the new leadership will be announced.
- In short, it's a meeting to vote on the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
- About 370 full and alternate members of the party's elite Central Committee will be elected at the Congress. Full members have voting rights and they all come from a pre-selected pool of candidates.
- They are chosen by 2,287 delegates from diverse backgrounds and groups. Among them are farmers, professionals and academics.
- Those participants have been pre-screened and are deemed to have "unshakable belief," "correct political stance" and "good moral quality," among others
- The Chinese Communist Party boasts a membership of 89 million.
- The bodies that sit atop the Communist Party organization will see their makeup change significantly. These include the 25-member Politburo, the 7-member Politburo Standing Committee, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the internal discipline organ that has come to the political foreground since 2012.
- The Politburo will then choose members of its Standing Committee, China's top leaders.
- The group — now headed by President Xi Jinping, who is general secretary of the Communist Party — will be unveiled after the meeting was over
- The Congress is more about ideology than policy, but it still charts the future direction for China and offers a glimpse into its opaque politics.
- At the 12th Congress in 1982, "Paramount Leader" Deng Xiaoping heralded in the age of China's socialist market economy
- At the 17th Party Congress in 2007, Xi was appointed to the Politburo Standing Committee, which signalled to the world that he was primed to take the top spot in the country's leadership.
- Five years later, Xi took office as the general secretary of the Communist Party. He became president of China in 2013.
- China’s ruling Communist Party endorsed a second five-year term for President Xi Jinping and amended its Constitution to add his name and ideology, elevating him on par with party founder Mao Zedong and his successor Deng Xiaoping.
- Xi’s concept of “socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era” was added to the party’s Constitution.
- The amendment to the CPC’s Constitution was approved making 64-year-old Xi’s ideology as a new component of the party’s guide for action, according to a resolution of the 19th CPC National Congress.
- The CPC elected a new Central Committee to lead the party for the coming five years.
- The 19th CPC Central Committee will in turn to elect the Politburo, the country’s top ruling council, the Politburo Standing Committee, and the General Secretary at its first plenary session.
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