During a press event, my conversations with fellow journalists ultimately led to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s 20th Party Congress, as the five-yearly political event was just less than two weeks away.To get more news about 20th party congress china, you can visit shine news official website.

A foreign journalist nearby replied, “Who are we to talk if even you have no news.” Everyone agreed that the 20th Party Congress might be the dullest session in decades.

Strengthened centralised power
Looking at the sessions over the past decades, a major session like the 20th Party Congress would usually mark a “change in era” where a new generation of CCP top leaders is formed. There is little surprise involved as these successors are usually determined five years ahead, but the leadership style and governance direction of these new hands and how they will lead China forward will be a fresh change that piques people’s interest.
However, over the past decade, the CCP has met its political agenda of rebuilding its core and changing the constitution. And at the sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the CCP, it passed a third historical resolution, which included the “Two Establishes” (两个确立) of uniting around Xi Jinping as the core of the party, and guided by “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”.

While the senior appointments at the 20th Party Congress are still up in the air, the third consecutive term in office for CCP’s top leader Xi Jinping has already been widely recognised. Analysts also believe that the CCP is unlikely to confirm the future successor at this session.

Apart from the top leader, other changes in senior CCP appointments are also of interest to the long-time observers of China, for instance, who will be the next Chinese Premier, who will be promoted to the Politburo standing committee, and which political stars will be promoted as Politburo members.
But with the CCP severely punishing factionalism and moving from a few key persons holding power, or the “nine dragons controlling water” (九龙治水), to having one position as the highest authority (定于一尊), it is not so easy to decipher the stand and interests of the senior appointments, leaving limited scope for discussion and interpretation.

Way forward with Covid-19 and the economy
The traditional audience that enjoys the excitement and gossip around CCP appointments would surely be disappointed by the uneventful 20th Party Congress. Even so, China observers are still closely watching this political event, especially the political and policy signals relating to the outside world.

In the lead-up to the 20th Party Congress, China is facing several external and domestic challenges. Internally, the Chinese economy is in a bad shape. Over the past decade, economic policies took a left turn following political trends, with the private sector the worst hit since reform and opening up.

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the “dynamic zero-Covid” policy continues to restrict people's movements between China and the outside world, with quarantine and testing measures inhibiting consumption, thus obstructing China’s huge “internal circulation”.