Here we explain the importance of the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress, which will start today, and how it will show its effects on the country’s state politics
with a plan to revise its political structure and decide who will be the party’s crucial Central Committee members in the next five years. The Central Committee elects the Politburo, which respectively names the members of its Standing Committee, the party’s most powerful organ. The general secretary is the leading member of the Standing Committee.
Newly-appointed officials bow to Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, and other leaders after taking the oath of office during a plenary session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March 2018. Under Xi’s control, the CCP has figured even more prominently in state affairs and Xi’s highly-anticipated third term would only mark how the party decides China’s destiny, experts say.
Parton exemplifies his thinking with the central committee on discipline inspection , which is one of the party’s most powerful units monitoring members’ behaviour. The CCDI is the same as the national supervision commission, a state organisation, according to Parton. “Two names for one institution,” he says. “Whether or not you are a party member, as an official, you are subject to the same rules and discipline” the CCP requires, he says.
director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London and author of a number of books on Chinese politics. While almost everyone believes that Xi’s third term is a settled issue inside the party, he will still face some serious hurdles from Covid challenge to foreign opposition and economic downturn, experts see.
“But that would be a big U-turn and raise the questions both of why so late and whether Xi is able to accept that he made a big mistake. That seems unlikely, given that legitimacy is built upon his omniscience,” the former diplomat adds.
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