Compared with the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee:
1/ The biggest change is that the phrase “taking supply-side structural reform as the main theme” is no longer mentioned, with the focus shifting to “upholding the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand.”
2/ No new members were added to the Politburo.
3/ Military part: adding “Pursuing struggle, strengthening readiness, and promoting development simultaneously.” (边斗争、边备战、边建设).
4/ Zhang Shengmin (张升民) has been appointed as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Biography of Zhang Shengmin, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China
Zhang Shengmin, male, Han ethnicity, was born in August 1958 in Wugong, Shaanxi Province. He joined the People’s Liberation Army in February 1978 and became a member of the Communist Party of China in July 1979. He holds a postgraduate degree from the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China, Member of the Central Military Commission of the People’s Republic of China, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), Secretary of the CMC Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Director and Party Secretary of the CMC Supervisory Commission. He holds the military rank of General of the Rocket Force.
Changes in the Wording on Cross-Strait Relations (the tone is getting more dovish):
1/ 19th Central Committee’s Fifth Plenary Session — Promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and the reunification of the motherland.(推进两岸关系和平发展和祖国统一)
2/20th National Congress — Firmly grasp the initiative and dominance in cross-Strait relations, and unswervingly advance the great cause of national reunification.(牢牢把握两岸关系主导权和主动权，坚定不移推进祖国统一大业)
3/ 20th Central Committee’s Fourth Plenary Session — Promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and advance the great cause of national reunification.(推动两岸关系和平发展、推进祖国统一大业)
Goals in the Field of Science and Technology
The Plenary Session set forth the main objectives for economic and social development during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period: to achieve notable results in high-quality development, to significantly improve the level of scientific and technological self-reliance and strength…….
全会提出了“十五五”时期经济社会发展的主要目标：高质量发展取得显著成效，科技自立自强水平大幅提高……
The Plenary Session proposed building a modernized industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy. It emphasized that the focus of economic development must be placed on the real economy, adhering to the directions of intelligentization, greening, and integration, accelerating the building of a manufacturing power, a quality power, an aerospace power, a transportation power, and a cyber power, maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing, and forming a modernized industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. Efforts should be made to upgrade and enhance traditional industries, foster and expand emerging and future industries, promote the high-quality and efficient development of the service sector, and build a modernized infrastructure system.
全会提出，建设现代化产业体系，巩固壮大实体经济根基。坚持把发展经济的着力点放在实体经济上，坚持智能化、绿色化、融合化方向，加快建设制造强国、质量强国、航天强国、交通强国、网络强国，保持制造业合理比重，构建以先进制造业为骨干的现代化产业体系。要优化提升传统产业，培育壮大新兴产业和未来产业，促进服务业优质高效发展，构建现代化基础设施体系。
The Plenary Session proposed accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and strength, and leading the development of new-quality productive forces. It called for seizing the historical opportunities of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinating the building of a strong nation in education, science and technology, and talent, improving the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, comprehensively strengthening independent innovation capabilities, seizing the commanding heights of scientific and technological development, and continuously generating new-quality productive forces. Efforts should be made to strengthen original innovation and tackle key and core technologies, promote deep integration between scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, advance the coordinated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and promote in-depth progress in building a Digital China.
全会提出，加快高水平科技自立自强，引领发展新质生产力。抓住新一轮科技革命和产业变革历史机遇，统筹教育强国、科技强国、人才强国建设，提升国家创新体系整体效能，全面增强自主创新能力，抢占科技发展制高点，不断催生新质生产力。要加强原始创新和关键核心技术攻关，推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合，一体推进教育科技人才发展，深入推进数字中国建设。
Comment:
The section on science and technology is placed at the top of the agenda, second only to the economy and modernization, and it emphasizes the need to “comprehensively strengthen independent innovation capacity and seize the commanding heights of technological development.”
The phrase “a new round of scientific and technological revolution” also appears for the first time as a stated goal in the new Five-Year Plan.
Five years ago, the Party emphasized the need to “uphold innovation as the core of China’s modernization drive and make self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology the strategic support for national development.”
This year, the language has shifted to “accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening” and “lead the development of new quality productive forces.” The key words here are “accelerate” and “high-level.”
Moreover, this year’s communiqué discusses science and technology in much more concrete terms — calling for China to “seize the historical opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation,” to “comprehensively enhance independent innovation capacity,” and to “seize the commanding heights of technological development.”
The message is clear: China aims to take the lead in the new wave of technological transformation — and the signal of preparing to “win the tech war” is unmistakable.
All of this indicates that science and technology will remain the top policy priority for the next five years.
In the latest communiqué, the section outlining key objectives states that “the level of self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology will be greatly enhanced.” In comparison, the corresponding phrase in the Fifth Plenum communiqué of the 19th Central Committee was “innovation capacity will be significantly improved,” suggesting that the importance of science and technology is being further elevated.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, a new wave of technological and industrial revolutions will continue to advance globally. As overseas tech companies ramp up investment, China must also keep pace to narrow the gap. In addition, the science and technology sector is likely to face intensified external “containment and suppression,” underscoring the need for greater self-reliance and resilience. Also, given the slowing birth rate and declining returns on capital, future growth potential will depend increasingly on gains in total factor productivity—of which technological progress is the fundamental driver.
On Stimulating Domestic Demand
The Plenary Session proposed building a strong domestic market and accelerating the formation of a new development pattern. It stressed adhering to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, closely integrating the improvement of people’s livelihoods, the promotion of consumption, as well as investment in physical assets and investment in people, using new demand to guide new supply, and using new supply to create new demand, promoting positive interactions between consumption and investment, and between supply and demand, and enhancing the endogenous driving force and reliability of the domestic economic cycle. Efforts should be made to vigorously boost consumption, expand effective investment, and resolutely eliminate bottlenecks and blockages that hinder the establishment of a unified national market.
全会提出，建设强大国内市场，加快构建新发展格局。坚持扩大内需这个战略基点，坚持惠民生和促消费、投资于物和投资于人紧密结合，以新需求引领新供给，以新供给创造新需求，促进消费和投资、供给和需求良性互动，增强国内大循环内生动力和可靠性。要大力提振消费，扩大有效投资，坚决破除阻碍全国统一大市场建设卡点堵点。
Comment:
It is the first time the idea that “closely integrating investment in physical assets and investment in people” has been proposed. It serves as a golden key to understanding China’s development thinking for the next five years.
In plain terms, over the next five years, the country will no longer rely solely on massive spending on infrastructure and real estate — investment in things — to drive economic growth. Instead, it aims to tie together spending on construction with investment in people — in education, skills, and social protection — making the two move forward in tandem. In face, the introduction of childcare subsidies for children aged 0–3 this year already reflects the policy shift toward “investment in people.”
The newly introduced goal of “removing bottlenecks that hinder a unified national market”—in other words, anti-involution—will be a key lever for building a modern industrial system. On how to clear these bottlenecks, the September 15 leadership essay in Qiushi, “Advancing the Building of a Unified National Market in Greater Depth,” lays out detailed guidance. Top of the list is “cracking down on disorderly low-price competition,” i.e., anti-involution. More specifics are expected in the forthcoming 15th Five-Year Plan.
According to relative analysis, the timeline of the “14th Five-Year Plan,” the main documents for the “15th Five-Year Plan” are likely to follow a similar sequence:
Plenum convenes and releases its communiqué (October 20–23, 2025) → roughly one week later, the Recommendations for the 15th Five-Year Plan are published (about 20,000 characters, typically without specific quantitative targets) → the full text of the Plan Outline is reviewed during the Two Sessions around March 5, 2026 → the complete Outline (about 70,000 characters), which includes key economic targets, is released in mid-March 2026 → beginning in the second half of 2026, the government starts rolling out sectoral five-year plans (for the 14th FYP, this phase was concentrated between Q4 2020 and early 2021; this time, it may occur between Q4 2026 and early 2027).
During this process, top-level schedules and official interpretations will help track and anticipate the evolution of policy direction. Based on the 14th FYP experience, possible milestones include:
From the end of the Plenum to the release of the Recommendations (late October 2025):
The morning after the Plenum concludes (around October 24), the Party may hold a press conference to interpret the communiqué. In the following days, the State Council’s financial or economic committees may convene study sessions or policy briefings. For example, after the Fifth Plenum of the 19th Central Committee closed on October 29, 2020, the Financial Stability and Development Committee held a study meeting on October 31, proposing the full implementation of the stock issuance registration system.
After the Recommendations are published (late October 2025):
The authorities may release official study guides and explanatory materials, with key interpretations possibly coming from the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission and affiliated think tanks. Senior leaders are also expected to conduct local inspection trips focused on “implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee.”
Before the Plan Outline is adopted (January–February 2026):
The annual training session for provincial and ministerial officials may focus on studying the spirit of the Fourth Plenum. Related leadership symposia and Politburo study sessions could follow. By late February, the Politburo meeting is expected to review the draft Outline before submitting it to the National People’s Congress in March.
After the Plan Outline is approved (March–April 2026):
From mid-March to early April, key ministries such as the Ministry of Finance are likely to hold press briefings explaining how they will implement the new plan. Around early April, a study guide for the Plan Outline may be published. In the second half of the year, ministries are expected to launch and promote sectoral and thematic plans to operationalize the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The full text translation of the communique (Unofficial)
Authorized Release: Communiqué of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 23 Communiqué of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on October 23, 2025)
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2025.
The session was attended by 168 Central Committee members and 147 alternate members. Members of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and responsible comrades from relevant departments attended as non-voting delegates. Some grassroots delegates to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and experts and scholars also attended as non-voting delegates.
The plenary session was presided over by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech.
The plenary session heard and discussed the work report delivered by Xi Jinping on behalf of the Political Bureau and deliberated and adopted the Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development. Xi Jinping provided an explanation of the Proposal (Draft) to the plenary session.
The plenary session fully affirmed the work of the Political Bureau since the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee. It unanimously agreed that the Political Bureau has conscientiously implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress and previous plenary sessions, adhered to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, fully and accurately implemented the new development philosophy, coordinated the advancement of the “Five-Sphere Integrated Plan” and the “Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy,” balanced domestic and international imperatives, and integrated development with security. It further deepened comprehensive reforms, promoted high-quality development, advanced socialist democratic and legal construction, strengthened ideological and cultural work, ensured people’s livelihoods and environmental protection, safeguarded national security and social stability, conducted in-depth education on implementing the Central Committee’s Eight-Point Regulations, advanced comprehensive and strict Party governance, strengthened national defense and military modernization, managed Hong Kong and Macao affairs and Taiwan-related work, and promoted major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. These efforts have driven sustained economic recovery and progress, with the main goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan nearing successful completion. The grand commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War greatly invigorated national spirit, sparked patriotic enthusiasm, and united the strength for progress.
The plenary session highly commended the major achievements in China’s development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. This period was extraordinarily challenging and remarkable. Facing a complex international environment and arduous domestic tasks in reform, development, and stability, the Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, united and led the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups to rise to challenges and forge ahead. It withstood the severe impact of the global pandemic, effectively addressed a series of major risks and challenges, and achieved new significant accomplishments in Party and state endeavors. China’s economic strength, scientific and technological capabilities, and comprehensive national strength have reached new heights, Chinese modernization has taken solid new steps, and the new journey toward the second centenary goal has achieved a strong start.
The plenary session noted that achieving socialist modernization is a progressive historical process requiring persistent effort and continuous struggle. The 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030) is a critical phase for laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts toward basically realizing socialist modernization, holding a pivotal role in this process. The development environment during this period faces profound and complex changes, with strategic opportunities coexisting with risks, challenges, and increasing uncertainties. China’s economy remains stable, with many advantages, strong resilience, and great potential. The long-term positive conditions and trends remain unchanged, and the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the super-large-scale market, a complete industrial system, and abundant talent resources are becoming more prominent. The entire Party must deeply understand the decisive significance of the “Two Establishments,” enhance the “Four Consciousnesses,” strengthen the “Four Confidences,” and achieve the “Two Upholds,” maintain strategic composure, bolster confidence in victory, proactively adapt to changes, dare to struggle, excel in struggle, and courageously face major challenges, even in turbulent times. With historical initiative, the Party must overcome difficulties, counter risks, meet challenges, focus on managing its own affairs, continue the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and strive to create a new chapter in Chinese modernization.
The plenary session emphasized that socioeconomic development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, and fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It must thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress and previous plenary sessions, focus on building a strong socialist modernized country and achieving the second centenary goal, advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization, coordinate the “Five-Sphere Integrated Plan” and the “Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy,” balance domestic and international imperatives, fully and accurately implement the new development philosophy, accelerate the building of a new development pattern, adhere to the principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, center on economic development, take high-quality development as the theme, drive progress through reform and innovation, aim to meet the people’s growing needs for a better life, and ensure comprehensive and strict Party governance as the fundamental guarantee. This will promote qualitative improvements and reasonable quantitative growth in the economy, advance the all-round development of individuals and solid steps toward common prosperity, ensuring decisive progress in basically realizing socialist modernization.
The plenary session outlined the following principles for socioeconomic development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period: uphold the Party’s overall leadership, prioritize the people, pursue high-quality development, deepen comprehensive reform, combine an effective market with a proactive government, and balance development with security.
The plenary session proposed the main goals for socioeconomic development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period: achieving significant results in high-quality development, greatly enhancing self-reliance and strength in science and technology, making new breakthroughs in comprehensive deepening of reforms, significantly improving social civilization, continuously enhancing the quality of people’s lives, achieving major new progress in building a Beautiful China, and further strengthening the national security barrier. Building on this foundation, by 2035, after another five years of effort, China’s economic strength, scientific and technological capabilities, defense strength, comprehensive national strength, and international influence will see substantial improvement, per capita GDP will reach the level of moderately developed countries, people’s lives will become happier and better, and socialist modernization will be basically achieved.
The plenary session proposed building a modern industrial system and consolidating the foundation of the real economy. It emphasized focusing economic development on the real economy, pursuing intelligent, green, and integrated directions, accelerating the construction of a strong manufacturing, quality, aerospace, transportation, and digital nation, maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing, and building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. This includes optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, nurturing and strengthening emerging and future industries, promoting the high-quality and efficient development of the service sector, and building a modern infrastructure system.
The plenary session proposed accelerating high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology to lead the development of new quality productive forces. It called for seizing the historical opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinating the construction of a strong education, science and technology, and talent nation, enhancing the overall efficacy of the national innovation system, comprehensively strengthening independent innovation capabilities, capturing the commanding heights of technological development, and continuously fostering new quality productive forces. This includes strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, promoting deep integration of technological and industrial innovation, advancing education, science, technology, and talent development in an integrated manner, and deepening the construction of a Digital China.
The plenary session proposed building a strong domestic market and accelerating the establishment of a new development pattern. It emphasized adhering to the strategic focus of expanding domestic demand, closely integrating improving people’s livelihoods with promoting consumption and combining investment in physical infrastructure with investment in human capital, using new demand to guide new supply and new supply to create new demand, promoting positive interactions between consumption and investment, supply and demand, and enhancing the endogenous momentum and reliability of the domestic economic cycle. This includes vigorously boosting consumption, expanding effective investment, and resolutely removing obstacles to building a unified national market.
The plenary session proposed accelerating the establishment of a high-level socialist market economy system to enhance the momentum for high-quality development. It emphasized adhering to and improving the basic socialist economic system, leveraging the leading role of economic system reforms, improving the macroeconomic governance system, and ensuring steady progress in high-quality development. This includes fully stimulating the vitality of various business entities, accelerating improvements in the market-based allocation of production factors, and enhancing macroeconomic governance efficiency.
The plenary session proposed expanding high-level opening-up to create a new landscape of win-win cooperation. It called for steadily expanding institutional opening-up, safeguarding the multilateral trading system, expanding international economic circulation, and promoting reform and development through openness to share opportunities and achieve mutual development with countries worldwide. This includes actively expanding autonomous opening-up, promoting innovative trade development, expanding space for two-way investment cooperation, and promoting high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
The plenary session proposed accelerating agricultural and rural modernization and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization. It emphasized prioritizing the resolution of issues related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, promoting urban-rural integration, continuously consolidating and expanding poverty alleviation achievements, enabling rural areas to basically meet modern living conditions, and accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural nation. This includes enhancing agricultural production capacity and quality, promoting the construction of livable, business-friendly, and beautiful rural areas, and improving policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich rural areas.
The plenary session proposed optimizing the regional economic layout and promoting coordinated regional development. It called for leveraging the combined effects of regional coordinated development strategies, major regional strategies, functional zoning strategies, and new-type urbanization strategies, optimizing the layout of major productive forces, harnessing the role of key regions as growth poles, and building a regional economic layout and territorial space system that complements advantages and promotes high-quality development. This includes enhancing regional development coordination, promoting inter-regional linkages, optimizing the territorial space development pattern, deepening people-centered new-type urbanization, and strengthening marine resource development, utilization, and protection.
The plenary session proposed stimulating the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation and promoting the flourishing development of socialist culture. It emphasized upholding Marxism as the guiding ideology, rooting in the profound Chinese civilization, adapting to the trends of information technology development, and developing a socialist culture with strong ideological leadership, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence, while solidly advancing the construction of a culturally strong nation. This includes promoting and practicing socialist core values, vigorously developing cultural undertakings, accelerating the growth of cultural industries, and enhancing the global influence of Chinese civilization.
The plenary session proposed strengthening efforts to ensure and improve people’s livelihoods and solidly advancing common prosperity for all. It emphasized doing what is possible within capabilities, strengthening inclusive, foundational, and safety-net livelihood programs, addressing the people’s urgent concerns, facilitating social mobility, and improving the quality of life. This includes promoting high-quality full employment, improving the income distribution system, providing satisfactory education, strengthening the social security system, promoting high-quality real estate development, accelerating the construction of a Healthy China, promoting high-quality population development, and steadily advancing the equalization of basic public services.
The plenary session proposed accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of socioeconomic development and building a Beautiful China. It emphasized firmly establishing and practicing the concept that green waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, using carbon peaking and neutrality as a guide, coordinating carbon reduction, pollution control, green expansion, and growth, building a strong ecological security barrier, and enhancing green development momentum. This includes intensifying pollution prevention and ecological system optimization, accelerating the construction of a new energy system, actively and steadily advancing carbon peaking, and accelerating the formation of green production and lifestyles.
The plenary session proposed advancing the modernization of the national security system and capabilities and building a higher level of a peaceful China. It emphasized steadfastly implementing the holistic national security concept, pursuing the path of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics, and ensuring a vibrant yet orderly society. This includes improving the national security system, strengthening national security capabilities in key areas, enhancing public safety governance, and improving the social governance system.
The plenary session proposed achieving the centenary goal of the People’s Liberation Army on schedule and promoting high-quality defense and military modernization. It emphasized implementing Xi Jinping’s thought on strengthening the military, adhering to the military strategic guidelines for the new era, upholding the Party’s absolute leadership over the people’s armed forces, implementing the system of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission taking overall responsibility, following the new “three-step” strategy for defense and military modernization, advancing political, reform-driven, technology-driven, talent-driven, and law-based military development, balancing struggle, preparedness, and construction, accelerating the integration of mechanization, informatization, and intelligentization, and enhancing strategic capabilities to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests. This includes accelerating the development of advanced combat capabilities, promoting modern military governance, and consolidating and enhancing the integrated national strategic system and capabilities.
The plenary session emphasized that the entire Party, military, and people of all ethnic groups must unite to strive for the realization of the 15th Five-Year Plan. It called for leading social revolution with the Party’s self-revolution, persistently advancing comprehensive and strict Party governance, enhancing the Party’s political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social mobilization capabilities, and improving the Party’s ability to lead socioeconomic development to gather tremendous strength for Chinese modernization. This includes upholding and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, advancing socialist democratic and legal construction, fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole society in pursuing Chinese modernization, promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, advancing the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and national reunification, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
The plenary session noted that studying and implementing the spirit of this plenary session is a major political task for the entire Party and nation in the current and future periods. It called for organizing the study, dissemination, and promotion of the plenary session’s spirit through various means to ensure that the entire Party and society fully grasp it. It emphasized resolutely implementing the spirit of the plenary session, steadfastly promoting high-quality development, accelerating the building of a new development pattern, taking solid steps toward common prosperity, better balancing development and security, and coordinating economic construction with work in all fields to lay a solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization.
The plenary session emphasized that governing the country requires first governing the Party, and a strong Party leads to a strong nation. The more effective Party governance is, the stronger the guarantee for socioeconomic development. It called for persistently advancing comprehensive and strict Party governance with unwavering determination, resolutely implementing the requirements for the Party’s self-revolution, promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of Party conduct construction, and steadfastly combating corruption to provide a strong guarantee for achieving the socioeconomic development goals of the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
The plenary session analyzed the current situation and tasks, emphasizing the resolute achievement of the annual socioeconomic development goals. It called for continuing to precisely implement the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments, focusing on stabilizing employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, maintaining the economic foundation, and consolidating and expanding the positive momentum of economic recovery. Macro policies should continue to exert force and intensify efforts at appropriate times, implement enterprise support policies, thoroughly carry out special actions to boost consumption, ensure the bottom line of the “three guarantees” at the grassroots level, and actively and steadily resolve local government debt risks.
The plenary session noted the need to effectively ensure people’s livelihoods, tap potential through multiple channels, strengthen efforts to stabilize and promote employment, ensure stable employment for key groups, intensify efforts to address unpaid wages, strengthen basic public services, and address the people’s urgent concerns. It emphasized effectively carrying out post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, resettling and ensuring the livelihoods of affected populations, and ensuring that disaster victims can spend the winter warmly.
The plenary session emphasized ensuring workplace safety and maintaining stability, tightening safety production responsibilities, strictly implementing regulatory systems, and resolutely preventing and curbing major accidents. It called for strengthening full-chain supervision of food and drug safety, thoroughly addressing and resolving conflicts and disputes, enhancing overall social security prevention and control, cracking down on various illegal and criminal activities in accordance with the law, strengthening public opinion guidance, and effectively preventing and resolving ideological risks.
The plenary session decided to appoint Zhang Shengmin as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
In accordance with the Party Constitution, the plenary session decided to promote alternate members of the Central Committee, including Yu Huiwen, Ma Hancheng, Wang Jian, Wang Xi, Wang Yonghong, Wang Tingkai, Wang Xinwei, Wei Tao, Deng Yiwu, Deng Xiuming, and Lu Hong, to full members of the Central Committee.
The plenary session reviewed and adopted the report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on the serious violations of discipline and law by Tang Renjian, Jin Xiangjun, Li Shiping, Yang Fasen, and Zhu Zhisong, as well as the report of the Central Military Commission on the serious violations of discipline and law by He Weidong, Miao Hua, He Hongjun, Wang Xiubin, Lin Xiangyang, Qin Shutong, Yuan Huazhi, Wang Chunning, and Zhang Fengzhong. It confirmed the Political Bureau’s earlier decisions to expel He Weidong, Miao Hua, Tang Renjian, Jin Xiangjun, He Hongjun, Wang Xiubin, Lin Xiangyang, Qin Shutong, Yuan Huazhi, Wang Chunning, Li Shiping, Yang Fasen, Zhu Zhisong, and Zhang Fengzhong from the Party.
The plenary session called on the entire Party, military, and people of all ethnic groups to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, strive together to basically realize socialist modernization, and continuously create a new chapter in building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
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