Following the Fifth Plenary Session, Xi Jinping dispatched central lecturing groups to various parts of the country to promote violent governance under the guise of lecturing, and to arrest dissidents and officials within 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.
Defense Minister Dong Jun is rumored to have been taken away for investigation and has been missing for over a month, failing to attend the Fifth Plenary Session, sparking external concern and speculation about internal power struggles.
The CCP held the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing, deliberating and adopting documents related to comprehensively strengthening Party discipline.
The CCP's state media, Xinhua News Agency, has released a major document of over 17,000 words, requiring party members to avoid one-man rule while upholding the core status of Xi Jinping.
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.
On November 1, CCP state media published the "Decision" passed by the Fifth Plenary Session. Part 7 of the document explicitly states that there shall be no "iron-cap princes" or "iron-clad guarantees" (dan shu tie quan).
On the third day of the Fifth Plenary Session, veteran military leaders submitted a joint proposal at the Jingxi Hotel, warning of the border situation and demanding that Li Zuocheng act as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
In a live broadcast, Hu Liren claimed that Liu Yuan, son of Liu Shaoqi and a general, currently controls 30,000 to 40,000 armed police troops in Beijing and is exerting a check on Xi Jinping in high-level politics.
On October 30, the CCP Central Committee held a press conference for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee. Zhang Fuhai, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, disclosed that since the 18th National Congress in 2012, discipline inspection and supervision agencies nationwide have disciplined a total of 7.922 million people, including 963 centrally-managed officials, and stated that the anti-corruption situation remains severe and complex.
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.
On October 30, the front pages of 12 newspapers, including the People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, China Youth Daily, Nanfang Daily, and Hubei Daily, were highly identical. All featured the holding of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee in Beijing as the headline, accompanied by the same set of photos of Xi Jinping speaking and a panoramic view of the meeting, along with extensive coverage of the plenary session communique.
The communique of the Fifth Plenary Session has been released. At the end of the communique, the words commanding the entire Party and the entire military were removed, and several clauses regarding the term limit system and lifelong accountability system for leading cadres were written into the plenary session's decision.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the CCP Central Committee concluded on October 29. The number of attendees was reduced, and the meeting confirmed the expulsion from the Party of 33 high-ranking officials, including Ma Xingrui, Zhang Youxia, Liu Zhenli, and Liu Jianchao.