China:  Reform of Party and state institutions helped modernize the country 

Published: March 01,2023

By Staff writer 

20th CPC Central Committee’s 2nd plenary sessionconcluded its three days meeting Chaired by president Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. During the meeting, it was observed that the Party and state institutions have been reformed to achieve a systematic and thorough restructuring of their functions, which has provided a strong guarantee for achieving historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country and accumulated precious experience for further reform of Party and state institutions.

The plenary session reviewed and adopted a plan for the reform of Party and state institutions which was proposed after soliciting wide opinions, according to a communiqué, issued after the meeting. Xi delivered explanatory remarks on the draft plan at the session and the session also agreed to put part of the reform plan to the first session of the 14th NPC for deliberation in accordance with due legal procedures.

The 2^nd plenary session took note that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has been making the reform of Party and state institutions a significant task in the drive to modernize the country’s system and capacity for governance. 

Xi delivered explanatory remarks on the draft plan at the session and the session also agreed to put part of the reform plan to the first session of the 14th NPC for deliberation in accordance with due legal procedures.

The Communiqué underscored efforts to ensure that the Party’s leadership over socialist modernization becomes more refined in institutional setup, more optimized in the division of functions, more improved in institutions and mechanisms, and more efficient in operation and management.

The communiqué further said that the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee well implemented the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the first plenary sessions of the Central Committee in face of the complicated international situation and heavy domestic tasks of advancing reform and development and maintaining stability. 

“The world has entered a new phase of turbulence and transformation”, the communiqué read, and also noted that China has entered a period of development in which strategic opportunities, risks, and challenges are concurrent and uncertainties and unforeseen factors are rising. The world is undergoing fast dynamic changes never seen before in a century according to the communiqué.  

To cope with the deep-seated issues in China’s reform and development, the plenary session urged efforts to fully and faithfully apply the new development philosophy on all fronts and implement the decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee under the new phase of COVID-19 prevention and control.

A total of 203 full members and 170 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee attended the session. Deputy Secretaries of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and leading officials of related departments were also present in a non-voting capacity.