China Communist party’s 20th national congress explained – in 30 seconds

Every five years, China’s ruling Communist party (CCP) holds a key congress, where China watchers look for clues to the country’s future. The 20th party congress will take place in Beijing before year-end. The date has not been announced, but analysts expect it to be held in mid-to-late October or early November.To get more news about 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, you can visit shine news official website.

Selection for the delegates of the 20th Congress began in November last year. For ambitious CCP cadres, this is a crucial opportunity to join the elite circle of the party’s ruling class.

In recent decades, there has been a tacit understanding within the party that only leaders aged 67 or younger can be promoted to, or remain in top posts, while those 68 or older at the time of the next congress must retire. In China, this is commonly called qi shang ba xia (七上八下, or “seven up, eight down”).Not every senior CCP leader has followed this rule, however. But since Xi assumed leadership of the party in 2012, a consensus has been formed by both Chinese insiders and foreign experts that the 69-year-old leader may continue to stay at the pinnacle of the Chinese power for longer than most of his predecessors.

Xi, the president and the CCP’s general secretary, is expected to be given a renewed mandate, despite having been the top leader for a decade. Due to the 2018 constitutional change that scrapped presidential term limits, he could, in theory, remain China’s head of the state after the end of his second term as president in 2023. Some analysts call it “leader for life”.
BENS is pleased to host a discussion on China and 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party with Heino Klinck, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia. The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is a party congress that is held every five years. The National Congress is theoretically the highest body within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Since 1987 the National Congress has been held in the months of October or November. The venue for the event, beginning in 1956, is the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Congress is the public venue for top-level leadership changes in the CCP and the formal event for changes to the Party’s Constitution. In the past two decades, the National Congress of the CCP has been pivotal at least as a symbolic part of leadership changes, and therefore has gained international media attention. The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will be held in Beijing, opening on 16 October 2022.[1] 2,300 delegates will represent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s estimated 90 million members. Preparations for the 20th National Congress began in 2021 and will end with a plenary session of the 19th Central Committee, a few days prior to the 20th National Congress. In 2021, local and provincial party organizations began electing delegates to the congress as well as receiving and amending party documents. It will be followed by the 21st National Congress in 2027.[3]