The Fifth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee will be held from 26th to 29th. Analysts believe that no major personnel changes are expected at the Fifth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, but General Secretary Xi Jinping will take this opportunity to further consolidate his authority and promote systemic changes within the party.
Reuters reported on the 23rd that experts generally expect that Xi Jinping will start his fourth term at the 21st National Congress of the Communist Party of China next year. The Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will allow him to further consolidate his authority, strengthen ideological unity, and deepen his influence within the party.
Ruby Osman, a senior policy adviser at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in London, said that the plenary session is not expected to focus on determining the promotion of individual officials, but will instead use it to send signals about what systemic changes Xi Jinping hopes to promote before the 21st National Congress of the Communist Party of China next year.
BBC Chinese reported on the 23rd that the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is also an important window for observing the personnel layout before the 21st National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In recent years, many members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China have been dismissed, and some Politburo positions have become vacant. Whether there will be new arrangements for these positions has attracted much attention.
Andrew Wedeman, a professor of political science at Georgia State University in the United States, said that in recent years, the number of "tiger" investigations has reached record highs, and the intensity and speed of anti-corruption have far exceeded any previous period. This means that the anti-corruption campaign did prosecute a large number of officials, but it did not have a deterrent effect.
Weidman pointed out that what Xi Jinping faces today is no longer mainly the officials promoted during his predecessor's period, but the corruption of those promoted during his tenure.
Weidman described Xi Jinping's efforts to eliminate the fallen "tigers" and then promote new people to take over, "only to find that he was selecting people from a polluted pool." This shows that the problem may not only involve individual officials or factions, but may be related to the entire cadre selection mechanism.
The report pointed out that there is still no clear successor in Chinese politics. Weidman and Neil Thomas, a researcher at the Asia Society Policy Institute, a U.S. think tank, both believe that this reflects the dilemma Xi Jinping faces: not appointing a successor will help maintain his authority, but appointing a successor may form a new center of power in advance.
Niu Ben predicted that several changes may occur after the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, including strengthening supervision of major projects and fiscal expenditures, strengthening the accountability mechanism of party committee secretaries, making more use of big data to investigate corruption, strengthening supervision of local officials, and further expanding the power of disciplinary inspection departments.
Hong Kong Ming Pao pointed out today that the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will further promote strict party governance in an all-round way. Xia Lu, a researcher at the Institute of Party History and Party Building at Renmin University of China, said that the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China aims to move "comprehensive and strict governance of the party" from the systematic construction stage to the sustained operation and consolidation stage.
