Party opens key plenum to outline reforms
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China’s Communist Party gave an emphatic no to so-call Western-style political reform in a document yesterday, a day before it starts a key meeting to set the economic agenda.
While Party leaders have promised reforms at the four-day plenum, these will focus on economic issues, and not Western-style “political reforms.”
In a full-page article in the People’s Daily, the Party’s historical research institute was emphatic that China could only prosper under the Party’s leadership. For those who “preach the indiscriminate copying of the Western system,” the Party will “uphold its leadership,” it said.
It warned, as President Xi Jinping has already done, that efforts to undermine the Party’s legitimacy by negating decades of history, including the 1966-76 “cultural revolution,” which preceded economic reforms in the late 1970s, would only sow the seeds of the Party’s own destruction. “The ancients had a saying: ‘If you’re going to destroy somebody’s country, you must first wipe out their history,’” the institute wrote.
The Party will continue on its path of “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” referring to its program of market-oriented economic reforms, it said.
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