Overview
- China’s roughly 300-member Central Committee will meet from Oct. 26 to 29 to deliberate a decision on “full and rigorous party self‑governance” that state media says will prioritise internal oversight over economic planning.
- President Xi Jinping chaired an early Politburo session that reviewed a central inspection report and called for “stern rectification,” signalling a stepped-up, sustained anti‑corruption posture ahead of the plenum.
- The plenum is expected to formalise new institutional measures and could ratify the expulsions of two Politburo members, Zhang Youxia and Ma Xingrui, over alleged corruption and disloyalty.
- Proceedings will be closed and tightly controlled with details released only in a post‑plenum Xinhua communique, so observers will watch the official language for concrete changes to inspections, supervision and accountability mechanisms.
- Xi’s long anti‑corruption drive has already thinned the party’s leadership ranks and analysts say this plenum aims to lock those practices into party rules, a move that could shape personnel selection and daily governance for the next five years.