https://www.scmp.com/rss/511195/feed Held over four days in November 2021, the Chinese Communist Party's "sixth plenum" saw members of the Central Committee, the party’s highest governing body, gather in Beijing for one of the most important political events in the country. A historic resolution hailed Xi Jinping as the creator of a body of “theories and thoughts”, putting him on a par with party immortals Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping and paving the way for a legacy-defining third term for the president. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday warned the Communist Party’s top provincial and ministerial officials not to waver on anti-corruption efforts and to strictly follow Beijing’s strategic decisions as his administration prepares for a crucial national gathering this year, according to state media reports. Xi made the remarks in Beijing at a Central Party School study session to ensure that provincial and ministerial top brass grasp the key points of a party plenum held late last year, state... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3163016/xi-jinping-his-top-leadership-no-mercy-fight-against-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3163016/xi-jinping-his-top-leadership-no-mercy-fight-against-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:00:16 +0000 Loyalty, competence and integrity are some of the key qualities the Communist Party is looking for to select a new generation of leaders, according to its personnel chief. Chen Xi, head of the Organisation Department, made the remarks in an article on “grooming qualified successors” in party mouthpiece People’s Daily on Wednesday. He said having the best and most loyal talent at the top was critical for the party to realise its goal of a great national rejuvenation. He also emphasised that... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3158226/chinas-communist-party-looking-new-generation-leaders-theyll?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3158226/chinas-communist-party-looking-new-generation-leaders-theyll?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:00:15 +0000 The Chinese Communist Party has released a directive telling members to prepare for the election of delegates to next year’s national congress, marking the official start of preparations for an event that will usher in major changes in the leadership. The 20th National Congress, a key party meeting held every five years, is expected to see new faces promoted to senior positions and will be held in the second half of the year. Cultural Revolution was a catastrophe, China’s Communist Party... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3156743/chinese-communist-party-formally-starts-process-selecting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3156743/chinese-communist-party-formally-starts-process-selecting?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:30:16 +0000 China faces increasingly severe national security challenges and stresses from outside its borders, according to a landmark historical resolution released on Tuesday which says Beijing’s capacity to deal with these tests is “insufficient”. “In the new era, China is faced with more acute national security challenges, as evidenced by unprecedented external pressure, intertwined traditional and non-traditional security threats, and frequent ‘black swan’ and ‘grey rhino’ events,” the resolution... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3156502/chinas-historical-resolution-puts-focus-rising-national?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3156502/chinas-historical-resolution-puts-focus-rising-national?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:33:36 +0000 In a landmark resolution released on Tuesday, the Communist Party endorsed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s major overhauls on Hong Kong and firm stand on Taiwan as the right decisions for the party and the country. In the full text of the resolution defining its achievements in the last century, the party doubled down on its determination to strengthen its grip on Hong Kong to ensure that the city is “governed by patriots”. The resolution also said Beijing must take the initiative in steering... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3156296/chinas-communist-party-backs-xi-jinpings-stand-hong-kong-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3156296/chinas-communist-party-backs-xi-jinpings-stand-hong-kong-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:00:14 +0000 China’s Communist Party has reiterated its official verdicts on the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. That is according to a new historical resolution adopted by its top leadership last week, only the third such resolution in the party’s 100-year history. The resolution, according to the full text released by state news agency Xinhua on Tuesday, states that the party never swerved from its rejection of the Cultural Revolution, which plunged China into a decade of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3156299/cultural-revolution-was-catastrophe-and-mao-was-responsible?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3156299/cultural-revolution-was-catastrophe-and-mao-was-responsible?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Nov 2021 21:00:19 +0000 On November 11, the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concluded its sixth plenary session. The plenum, coinciding with the centenary of the founding of the party, is of historic significance to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Revisiting history helps to shed light on the future. At the plenum, a landmark resolution was passed: the Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century. By reviewing the feats in the Communist... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3156121/chinas-sixth-plenum-four-insights-communist-partys-100-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3156121/chinas-sixth-plenum-four-insights-communist-partys-100-years?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Nov 2021 06:30:13 +0000 Hello and welcome to a new week after China’s Singles’ Day online shopping spree and the anniversary of the day the world marked the 1918 end of World War I. Held on China’s unofficial anti-Valentine’s Day on November 11 – because 11/11 looks like bare branches, symbolising the unattached – sales grew less than in previous years, partly because of the slow economic recovery. I’m Holly Chik, a reporter on the China desk of the South China Morning Post who follows science development. I’m on... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3156049/china-update-historical-resolutions-and-future-planet-among-our?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3156049/china-update-historical-resolutions-and-future-planet-among-our?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:00:28 +0000 “1997, please come soon, then I can go to Hong Kong …” the old song goes, and who would have thought back then that these lyrics could still mean so much so many years later. When 23-year-old Ai Jing, a mainland Chinese folk and pop singer, released My 1997 in the early 1990s, it became an immediate national hit as the stage was being set for Hong Kong’s handover from British to Chinese rule. While Ai claimed it was only a love song about a mainland girl longing to see her Hong Kong boyfriend,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3156002/what-2-hit-songs-can-tell-you-about-inclusion-hong-kong-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3156002/what-2-hit-songs-can-tell-you-about-inclusion-hong-kong-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Nov 2021 06:37:52 +0000 Xi Jinping’s new era truly has begun. If anyone still has any doubt that he will dominate Chinese politics in the years to come, the historic resolution adopted by a top leadership meeting which ended on Thursday has provided the glowing theoretical justification for his continued reign. It may be called the Resolution on Major Achievements and Historical Experiences of the Party over the Past Century but it is less about history than Xi’s era, with senior officials mincing no words in... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3155915/xis-new-era-here-historic-communist-party-resolution-just-start?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3155915/xis-new-era-here-historic-communist-party-resolution-just-start?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Nov 2021 01:30:20 +0000 The sixth and penultimate plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Central Committee had a single item formally on the agenda. That proposal was about the “major achievements and historical experience of the party over the past century”. The significance of the resolution cannot be overestimated, being only the third of its kind and heralding General Secretary and President Xi Jinping’s determination to attain his vision for “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” by 2049, when the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3155923/new-challenges-await-xi-jinping-plenum-points-way-ahead-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3155923/new-challenges-await-xi-jinping-plenum-points-way-ahead-china?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:53:09 +0000 The Chinese Communist Party in a communique on Thursday endorsed President Xi Jinping’s policies on Hong Kong and Taiwan as part of his major political achievements. The move indicates Beijing continues to hold a firm red line on the two regions, as they will be recognised as important parts of Xi’s legacy. In a communique issued at the close of a four-day plenary session, the party’s top leadership said: “With regard to upholding the policy of ‘one country, two systems’ and promoting national... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155755/chinas-communist-party-backs-xi-jinpings-firm-hand-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155755/chinas-communist-party-backs-xi-jinpings-firm-hand-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:30:20 +0000 Xi Jinping has been hailed as the creator of a body of “theories and thoughts” in a historical Chinese Communist Party resolution, putting him on par with party immortals Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The resolution adopted on Thursday sets the stage for next year’s sweeping leadership reshuffle and paves the way for a legacy-defining third term for the president. In a communique issued at the closure of the sixth plenum, a four-day gathering of China’s top political elite, it summarised the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155753/chinese-communist-party-resolution-cements-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155753/chinese-communist-party-resolution-cements-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:59:40 +0000 The sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party, according to the official language, “comprehensively reviews the major achievements made and the historical experience accumulated during the Party’s 100 years of struggle”. As the party sees it, the sixth plenum stands at a “new historical starting point” of the “second centenary goal” – to transform China into a fully modernised, socialist nation by the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in 2049 –... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3155369/sixth-plenum-xi-helm-new-era-when-china-becomes-strong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3155369/sixth-plenum-xi-helm-new-era-when-china-becomes-strong?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:30:21 +0000 China’s top Communist Party officials have started a landmark closed-door meeting where they are expected to adopt a monumental motion that reviews the party’s achievements in its 100-year history. Little had been revealed about the agenda for the sixth plenary session of the Central Committee, the party’s top governing body, as the four-day session got under way in Beijing on Monday. However, expectations are that delegates will consider and pass a “historical resolution” on the party’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155333/chinas-communist-party-cusp-history-xi-jinping-sets-stage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155333/chinas-communist-party-cusp-history-xi-jinping-sets-stage?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:26:39 +0000 After paramount leader Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, China’s communist rulers spent years debating how to take the country forward from more than a decade of international isolation. A decision came in 1981. They would explain, to the Chinese people and the world, the mistakes of Mao and the Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution – 10 years of political and social upheaval that only ended when Mao died. It was done in a 30,000-word resolution, passed by the Central Committee, a statement... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155062/chinas-communist-party-about-pass-new-resolution-heres-what?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155062/chinas-communist-party-about-pass-new-resolution-heres-what?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Nov 2021 14:00:19 +0000 On Monday, top officials of China’s Communist Party will consider and likely adopt a “historical resolution” at the Central Committee’s most important meeting ahead of next year’s national congress. The “Resolution of the CCP Central Committee on the Major Achievements and Historical Experiences of the Party’s Centennial Struggle”, to be discussed at the sixth plenary session of the party’s highest governing body, is set to look back at key events in the party’s 100-year history and enshrine... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3154996/xi-jinpings-historical-resolution-what-it-and-why-it-important?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3154996/xi-jinpings-historical-resolution-what-it-and-why-it-important?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:00:23 +0000 On Monday, the Chinese Communist Party will kick off a four-day closed-door session that will be attended by hundreds of the most powerful people in the country. More than 370 full and alternate members of the Central Committee, the party’s highest governing body, will gather in Beijing for their sixth plenary session ahead of next year’s National Congress, when a major leadership reshuffle is expected. The session, led by President Xi Jinping in his capacity as general secretary of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155038/communist-partys-sixth-plenum-what-plenum-and-why-it-one-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155038/communist-partys-sixth-plenum-what-plenum-and-why-it-one-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Nov 2021 02:00:35 +0000