The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was opened at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, China on Sunday.
Under the chairmanship of Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, the Congress was participated by Secretary General of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping, member of Politburo of the CPC Central Committee and Prime Minister Li Keqiang and over 2,200 full Party members representing 96 million Party members across China.
Scheduled for Oct 16-22, the 20th Congress aims to hear and examine the political report of the 19th CPC Central Committee, study the report of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, consider and approve amendments to the Party Constitution and elect the 20th CPC Central Committee and the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Delivering a report to the congress, comrade Xi Jinping noted that the five years since the 19th National Congress of the CPC Central Committee have been truly momentous and extraordinary. The Party Central Committee has pursued a strategy of national rejuvenation amid global changes of a magnitude not seen in a century.
“The Central Committee has brought together the entire Party, the military and the people and led them in effectively responding to grave, intricate international developments and a series of immense risks and challenges. With great efforts and determination, we have steadily advanced socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era,” said comrade Xi Jinping.
He highlighted Party’s devotion to finishing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and its faithful application of new development philosophy on all fronts as well as its focusing on promoting high-quality development, and efforts to create a new pattern of development.
The CPC Central Committee has actively developed advanced socialist culture and ensured and improved public wellbeing as a matter of priority and pooled resources to wage a critical battle against poverty.
In responding to the Covid-19, the CPC Central Committee has put the people and their lives above all else, worked to prevent both imported cases and domestic resurgences and tenaciously pursued a dynamic zero-Covid-19 policy, thus protecting the Chinese people’s health and safety to the greatest extent possible and making tremendously encouraging achievements in both epidemic response and economic and social development.
Comrade Xi also highlighted the Party’s leadership of the Chinese people in solving a great number of problems that had long gone unsolved, securing many achievements that hold major future significance and achieving impressive advances in the cause of the Party and the country.
“The past decade made three major events of great immediate importance and profound historical significance for the cause of the Party and the people. We embraced the centenary of the Communist Party of China, we ushered in a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and we eradicated absolute poverty and finished building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, thus completing the First Centenary Goal. These were historic feats- feats accomplished by the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people striving in unity, feats that will be forever recorded in the Chinese nation’s history, and feats that will profoundly influence the world.”
Source: Lao News Agency