New CPC leadership to be unveiled on Oct 23 – Macau Business

The Communist Party of Chinas 20th Congress will end on October22, a spokesman said Saturday at a press conference on the eve of the gathering. Members of the new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau will meet Chinese and foreign journalists after the conclusion of the first plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which will take place the day after the Congress ends.

Around 2,300 delegates from every province in China will gather at the Great Hall of the People in the capital Beijing from Sunday.

The CPCs five-yearly talking shop will get under way at 10:00 am with an opening ceremony, after which Xi is expected to deliver a speech that will give an assessment of the previous term as well as a roadmap for the next five years.

Congress spokesman Sun Yeli told reporters: The preparations for the Congress have now been fully completed.

Should everything go to what is widely expected by most observers, by the end of the meeting 69-year-old Xi will be reconfirmed as the partys general secretary.

At the conclave, the 2,296 participants will pick members of the partys roughly 200-member Central Committee, which in turn selects the 25-person Politburo and its l Standing Committee the countrys highest leadership body.

Sun said that the number of female delegates has increased to 27 percent from 24 percent at the last Congress in 2017.

China is holding Sundays opening ceremony under a strict pandemic control policy, sealing organisers and journalists in a virus-secure bubble two days in advance.

Addressing the countrys dynamic zero-Covid policy, Sun noted that Chinas measures to tackle the COVID-19 epidemic are the most cost-effective and have worked the best for the country.

Since the onset of the epidemic, China has put people and peoples lives front and center, said Sun Yeli. We give top priority to peoples health and safety. This is part and parcel of our epidemic response efforts.Dynamic zero-COVID policy has been adopted in light of Chinas national realities and it is a science-based policy, Sun added.

The amendment to the Constitution of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the upcoming 20th CPC National Congress will incorporate the major theoretical views and strategic thinking to be established in a report of the 19th CPC Central Committee to the 20th CPC National Congress, the spokesperson said.The amendment will fully embody the latest achievements in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and to the needs of the times, said Sun Yeli.

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New CPC leadership to be unveiled on Oct 23 - Macau Business