Overview
- The Central Committee will meet in Beijing from Oct. 26 to 29 to deliberate a draft decision on what the party calls 'full and rigorous party self-governance', shifting emphasis from economic planning to institutionalising discipline.
- Xi Jinping chaired an early Politburo meeting that reviewed a major inspection report and called for 'stern rectification', underlining the plenum's high-pressure anti-corruption agenda.
- The party announced key provincial appointments on Oct. 24, a pre-plenum round of personnel changes that signals how leadership seats are being reshaped ahead of the conclave.
- Delegates are expected to ratify expulsions of two Politburo members, Zhang Youxia and Ma Xingrui, and to strengthen rules and bodies that increase oversight of officials.
- The meeting is closed to the public and details will be released in opaque Xinhua dispatches, but analysts say the plenum aims to cement Xi's control, make anti-corruption permanent within party institutions, and further thin the current leadership ahead of the 2027 Party Congress.