From Hong Kong to the military: the Communist Party’s top new talking points
- In the wake of this month’s Central Committee meeting, officials are fanning out across China to spread the party’s word on the national direction
While the lectures are expected to be delivered behind closed doors, their content will be based on a key document produced by the four-day plenum: “The Communist Party Central Committee’s resolution on several key issues of maintaining and perfecting the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernisation of the state’s governance system and capacity”.
The title might be quite a mouthful, but it lays out some important policy directions the party has set out for the country. Here are five takeaways:
● Communist Party leadership
The document lays out important policy directions the party has set out for the country, the first of which centres on the party’s leadership.
It stresses that country’s strength stems from the “centralised and unified leadership” of the party but there is a need to “modernise” governance, a message that reflects President Xi Jinping’s push to consolidate party and state institutions to centralise authority.