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Party Congress begins Thursday

Chinese leaders ended a key Party plenum yesterday with a decision to convene the National Party Congress from Thursday in Beijing.

The four-day meeting of 365 senior Party officials formally expelled disgraced former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai and former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun from the Communist Party, and approved the Party Constitution's amendment.

The plenum was presided over by the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee. President Hu Jintao, who is also General Secretary of the Party Central Committee, made a work report at the plenum.

Vice President Xi Jinping introduced a report of the current five-year Party Congress and an amendment to the Party charter, both of which will be discussed at the upcoming Party Congress.

The plenum fully affirmed the work of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee in the past five years.

Deng Xiaoping Theory

The meeting reached consensus that the Political Bureau has held high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee has been guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents, and thoroughly carried out the Scientific Outlook on Development, according to a communique of the meeting.

The Party Central Committee's Political Bureau has united and led the entire Party, the armed forces and people of all ethnic backgrounds in the nation to maintain growth, keep prices in line, restructure the economy, improve people's livelihoods, embark on reforms and promote social harmony, by adhering to scientific development and accelerating the transformation of the economic growth pattern, according to the communique.

It added that the Political Bureau has continued to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, maintained the continuity and stability of macroeconomic policies, and made efforts in expanding domestic demands, strengthening innovation, reducing energy use and emissions, deepening reform and improving people's livelihoods.

Stable development

The Political Bureau has comprehensively pushed forward the socialist economic, political, cultural, social and conservation culture construction and the great new Party-building project, with various causes achieving remarkable results and maintaining a stable and relatively fast economic development as well as social harmony and stability.

"The country's economic development has remained stable and rapid. Reform and opening-up made significant progress. People's living standards have remarkably improved. Democratic and legal system construction have taken new steps," it said.

Cultural construction came to a new level. Social construction made new progress. National defense and military construction opened up new prospects, said the communique.

Works relating to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have been further enhanced. Diplomatic work has scored new achievements. Party building has been enhanced in an all-round way. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has been developed.

The blueprint from the Party Congress will be presented to parliament for approval in March.





 

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