The second plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will be held from February 26 to 28 in Beijing, according to a decision made at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held in Beijing on Tuesday.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting. The meeting discussed a work report of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to the CPC Central Committee.
Also discussed at the meeting was a draft plan for the reform of Party and state institutions, and it was decided that the plan would be revised according to the opinions pooled at the meeting and submitted to the upcoming plenary session for deliberation.
The meeting discussed a list of proposed candidates for the leading positions of state institutions to be recommended to the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress and a list of proposed candidates for the leadership of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee to be recommended to the first session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee.
The work report, the draft reform plan and the proposed candidates’ lists will be on the agenda at the second plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, according to the meeting.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, the CPC Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, has been making the reform of Party and state institutions a significant task in the drive to modernize the country’s system and capacity for governance, according to the meeting.
Party and state institutions have been reformed to achieve a systematic and thorough restructuring of their functions, the meeting noted, stressing that the reform has provided a strong guarantee for achieving historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country and accumulated precious experience for further reform of Party and state institutions.
At the 20th CPC National Congress, important plans were made for deepening the reform of Party and state institutions, the meeting said.
It underscored efforts to ensure that the Party’s leadership over socialist modernization becomes more refined in institutional setup, more optimized in the division of functions, more improved in institutions and mechanisms, and more efficient in operation and management.
