The Chinese Communist Party chose its new composition this Saturday. Central Committee and the highest leadership bodies, during the farewell and closing of the XX National Congress, as reported by the Xinhua agency.
As expected, the country’s prime minister, Li Keqiangwas excluded from the standing committee, the party’s highest decision-making body. Li, 67, had pushed his retirement forward in recent months, and experts have assumed he’ll take a back seat, even though he’s still a year away from mandatory retirement, a rule that doesn’t apply to the party’s general secretary and the country’s general secretary. President Xi Jinping.
Along with him, other veterans of the party, such as the chairman of the National People’s Congress, were excluded. li zhanshu, 72 years old; Wang Yang, 67, Chairman of the Political Consultative Conference, and Han Zheng, 68, Deputy Prime Minister confirmed to the South China Morning Post.
At the congress chaired by Xi personally, members of the Communist Party of China elected 200 people to head the Central Committee and 170 substitute members, and who would lead the party for the next five years. members Central Committee They answer the 25 members of the Politburo, who in turn report to the standing committee of the party.
In his final speech, Xi urged the new Central Committee to follow up “unmistakablyThe political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and adherence to the “organic unity of the party leadership”.
He has also shown his willingness. “Strengthening the guarantee of popular control of the country” to promote “popular democracy” and to consolidate a “patriotic united front”, as well as promoting “comprehensive” consultative democracy, according to the said institution.
The Chinese president expressed his desire “better play the rule of law role“in the consolidation of the foundations, in the building of a wholly modern socialist country.
“It is necessary to develop the socialist legal system with the following” features With the Constitution in its essence, firmly promote law-based government, administer justice rigorously and impartially, and accelerate the building of a law-governed society,” he added.
As a result, Xi recalled the importance of applying the “general security concept” in the Central Committee’s policies and maintaining national security throughout the process.”in all aspects of the work of the party and the country.
“It is necessary to improve the national security system, improve the ability to protect” national security, “Improve the level of governance of public safety,” said the President of China.
Xi is therefore moving towards consolidating his power in the face of an “internationally complex environment.” “numerous internal difficulties”By highlighting the “unusual and extraordinary” achievements of a politician whose booming career initially surprised delegates and members of the world’s largest political organization, as some members of the party leadership have noted.