BEIJING: The 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee issued a communique at the end of its second plenary session on Tuesday.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made an important speech at the three-day session, which was presided over by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
A total of 203 full members and 170 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee attended the session. Deputy secretaries of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and leading officials of related departments were also present in a non-voting capacity.
At the session, the CPC Central Committee heard and discussed a work report presented by Xi, who was entrusted by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
The session adopted a list of proposed candidates for the leading positions of state institutions, which is scheduled to be recommended to the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC).
It also adopted a proposed candidate list for the leadership of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which is to be recommended to the first session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee.
The plenary session decided to recommend the two lists respectively to the presidium of the first session of the 14th NPC and the presidium of the first session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, according to the communique.
The annual sessions of the NPC and CPPCC National Committee are scheduled to open on March 5 and March 4, respectively.
The first sessions of the 14th NPC and the 14th CPPCC National Committee are important for mobilizing the whole Party and Chinese people of all ethnic groups to build a modern socialist country in all respects and advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts, the document said.
–The Daily Mail-CGTN news exchange item
