China’s cadres may face ‘stricter’ rules in revamp of Communist Party’s code of conduct
Harsher guidelines expected in anticipation of a new attempt to centralise authority
Revamping decades-old codes of conduct for Communist Party members will be high on the agenda of a party plenum in October, the Politburo said on Tuesday as Chinese President Xi Jinping moves to tighten control over senior cadres.
The decision-making Politburo met yesterday to set the date of the meeting and outline its key agendas, as well as to deliberate on economic policy for the second half of the year.
The sixth plenum is the most important meeting in the run-up to an expected massive reshuffle late next year.
Xinhua reported that two main themes for the plenum would be revising a resolution on political conduct within the party that was formulated in Deng Xiaoping’s era, and amending a trial regulation on internal supervision passed by the Central Committee in 2003.
In particular, the plenum would focus on the internal political conduct of leading party institutions and cadres, especially members of the Central Committee, its Politburo and the innermost Politburo Standing Committee, Xinhua said.
The original criteria for political conduct within the party stipulated that collective leadership was the overriding principle.