An important resolution is expected at the meeting of the Communist Party of China
The sixth and final meeting of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which will be attended by a full number of members, will be held on November 8 and 11 in the capital, Beijing.
The third resolution in the history of the CPC is expected to be announced at this meeting.
In the 100-year history of the Chinese Communist Party, only two resolutions of this nature have been passed so far, covering the country and party policies over the past several decades.
This meeting of the Central Committee is the most important political meeting before the party's congress in the spring of next year.
what has happened?
The Politburo, the party's highest decision-making body, had decided on October 18 that a full meeting of the Central Committee would be held in November.
The announcement also said that the meeting would look at the party's struggle, experience and achievements in its 100-year history and a resolution would be tabled on it.
According to the official website, the full meeting will focus on the party's achievements, historical experiences and struggle over the past century.
All 376 members of the Central Committee will attend the meeting. Next year, the 25 members of the party's highest decision-making body will turn 68, the retirement age for top leaders.
What is the significance of this meeting?
In the internal affairs of the CPC, important party issues, including the appointment of leaders, party organization and consideration of ideas, have been discussed at meetings held over the past 30 years.
In October 2016, the sixth meeting of the 18th Central Committee endorsed President Xi Jinping's central leadership.
One of the first two key resolutions of the party was announced at the seventh meeting of the Sixth Central Committee of the CPC in 1945. The resolutions dealt with issues of some historical significance that endorsed Mao Zedong's leadership within the party.
The second resolution was ratified in 1981, covering the mistakes made by the party during the Cultural Revolution and laying the groundwork for former President Deng Xiaoping's policies of reform and opening up the economy.
What is expected in the new resolution?
All Chinese-language newspapers and media outlets in the country are content to report on this important meeting from the state-run news agency Geneva. But for the readers of the outside world, the English-language Chinese media have made some comments and speculations about the third resolution of the CPC.
The official newspaper Global Times quoted Fan Peng, an analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that the last two resolutions were on specific issues and questions facing the party, but the third resolution was about the party's future after extensive party experience. Will be about the concept of
The Hong Kong-based news website said the first two resolutions came at key historical milestones in the party, confirming the key positions of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping in the party.
The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based private newspaper, spoke to Joe Xu, a political analyst at Nanjing University in China, who observed the 1981 document. He said the party's views on China's cultural revolution would not change, but it might soften. He said that the language of the third resolution could be softer than that of the 1981 resolution and it would not contain too much fanfare of the national leadership.
Ling Li, a professor of Chinese politics and law at the University of Vienna, told the South China Morning Post that the third resolution could be to name President Xi Jinping chairman of the party before next year's congress. To be promoted to the post of Lee added that the agreement would make Dad Shi take over as CPC general secretary.