Exercising Full and Rigorous Governance Over the Party · Full chronicle and history

The Fifth Plenary Session of the CCP Central Committee confirms the expulsion of Zhong Shaojun, former Director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission, from the Party.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee was held. The communique shows that the number of Central Committee members and alternate members has decreased by 97 compared to the 20th National Congress. The meeting passed a decision on strict party governance and scheduled the 21st National Congress for the second half of 2027.

The CCP held the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing, deliberating and adopting documents related to comprehensively strengthening Party discipline.

Xinhua News Agency has published the "Decision of the CCP Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistent Promotion of Comprehensive Strict Party Governance," explicitly requiring that top leaders must not engage in one-man rule or patriarchal practices.

Following the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee, the push for comprehensive strict party governance and the purging of officials has led to mass arrests of officials in government compounds across the country, triggering panic within official circles and a trend of officials preparing for their aftermath in advance.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee has adopted a 17,000-character decision. The content covers strengthening supreme political authority, restricting the power of top officials at all levels, establishing a vertical supervision system within the Party, managing cadres throughout their entire cycle, and breaking the immunity of 'iron-hat kings,' thereby comprehensively implementing white terror within the Party.

At the press conference of the CCP Central Committee on October 30, Hu Heping, Deputy Head of the Publicity Department, stated that the "Decision" adopted by the Fifth Plenary Session proposes that strengthening party spirit is the fundamental task of comprehensive strict party governance, requiring all party members to regard strengthening party spirit as a lifelong project.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee passed the "Decision of the CCP Central Committee on Persistently Advancing Comprehensive Strict Party Governance on Several Major Issues," and decided to convene the 21st National Congress of the CCP in the second half of 2027.

On the afternoon of October 29, at the Fifth Plenary Session, Xi Jinping responded to questions about whether comprehensive strict party governance hinders economic and social development, stating that the impact is positive rather than negative, and emphasized that there must be no hesitation or retreat in the future. Xinhua News Agency published a feature report on October 31.

On October 29, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee concluded in Beijing, reviewing and adopting the "Decision on Several Major Issues of Persistently Promoting Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party." Xi Jinping personally served as the head of the drafting group for the "Decision." On October 30, the authorities held a press conference to brief the public.

On October 23, 2026, the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee held a meeting to deliberate a comprehensive report on the seventh round of inspections of the 20th CCP Central Committee, covering 36 units of central and state organs.

On October 22, a meeting marking the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Long March was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, attended by about 3,000 people. Xi Jinping reviewed the history of the Long March, emphasized the decisive significance of the Zunyi Conference in establishing Mao Zedong's leadership position, put forward five requirements for successfully carrying on the new Long March journey, and stressed the Party's absolute leadership over the military and full and strict governance of the Party.

Xi Jinping suddenly published an article in Qiushi magazine, stressing the need to unify thinking, uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee, and put power in the cage of institutions, sending signals of a comprehensive purge within the Party.

Xinhua News Agency announced that the 20th issue of Qiushi magazine will publish an important article by Xi Jinping on exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance, with the content drawn from his speech at the plenary session of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in January this year.

According to a report by Radio France Internationale, the Chinese Communist Party journal Qiushi published a speech by Xi Jinping titled "Advancing Full and Strict Party Self-Governance with Higher Standards and More Concrete Measures" on October 15, 2026. The speech emphasized the necessity of advancing full and strict party self-governance. Outside analysts believe this move reflects Xi Jinping's concern over the phenomenon of "two-faced people" within the party, as well as his continued focus on political security.

Xi Jinping published an article in Qiushi magazine, sharply criticizing opportunistic phenomena such as "jumping ship" within the Party, and demanding that observation and inaction during leadership transitions be prevented.

The CCP Central Committee will convene the Fifth Plenary Session in Beijing to deliberate on topics including full and rigorous Party self-governance and responding to the economic and external situations.

Xi Jinping published an article in Qiushi magazine, sending a strong signal of a thorough purge within the Chinese Communist Party.

Officials announced that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee will run from October 26 to 29, breaking with the usual convention that the fifth plenum focuses on the economy, with the theme being comprehensive and strict Party self-governance.

The Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee held a meeting, officially determining that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee will be held in Beijing from October 26 to 29, and submitted the decision on exercising full and strict governance over the Party for deliberation.

The Chinese Communist Party announced that the Fifth Plenum of the Central Committee will be convened at the end of October, personally chaired by Xi Jinping, with the agenda to study major issues concerning the persistent advancement of comprehensive strict Party governance.

Xinhua News Agency reported that the Political Bureau meeting decided to submit the draft decision on comprehensively and strictly governing the Party to the 5th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee for deliberation.

On September 21, Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the CCP Political Bureau, stressing the sustained advancement of full and strict Party self-governance, and reiterating Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought, which was said to signal a tightening of politics within the Party.

Xi Jinping published an article titled "Upholding and Fulfilling the Political Responsibility for Governing the Party" in Qiushi.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scheduled to be held in October 2026, in the fourth quarter. Its theme is to persistently advance full and strict Party self-governance, consolidate the Party's ruling position, and improve the system of strict Party self-governance. Ahead of the session, the National Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP Central Committee also held a plenary meeting in preparation.

In late August 2026, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held an unprecedented national plenary meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to prepare for the upcoming Fifth Plenary Session, stressing strict political discipline and discipline for the leadership transition, and calling for a comprehensive purge of two-faced people who harbor divided loyalties and say one thing while doing another, as well as a crackdown on political opportunism and factionalism.

The CCP Politburo held a meeting and decided to convene the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing in October 2026. The agenda includes the Politburo report, advancing comprehensive strict party governance, analyzing the economic situation, and deploying work for the second half of the year.

The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) has launched its third round of special inspections. Hu Chunhua announced at the meeting the authorization and appointment of inspection team leaders and the division of tasks.

On February 6, the drafting group for the Fifth Plenary Session documents held its first plenary meeting at Huairentang. Xi Jinping proposed 39 major issues across 8 areas, setting a strict tone.

The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party studied major issues of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. After the meeting, it adopted a new code of intra-party political life and a revised regulation on intra-party supervision, and formally put forward "the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core."