[Communique of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China] (Adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on October 29, 2026) The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will be held in Beijing from October 26 to 29, 2026. The plenary session was attended by 162 members of the Central Committee and 117 alternate members of the Central Committee. Members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and responsible comrades from relevant parties attended the meeting. Some grassroots comrades, experts and scholars among the representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also attended the meeting. The plenary session is chaired by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivered an important speech. The plenary session listened to and discussed Xi Jinping's work report commissioned by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and reviewed and adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues on Persistently Promoting Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party." Xi Jinping explained the "Decision (Discussion Draft)" to the plenary session. The plenary session fully affirmed the work of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party. It was unanimously agreed that the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conscientiously implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 20th Plenary Session of the Party, adheres to the general tone of the work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, completely, accurately and comprehensively implements the new development concept, coordinates and promotes the "five-in-one" overall layout, coordinates the advancement of the "four comprehensives" strategic layout, coordinates both domestic and international situations, coordinates development and security, solidly promotes high-quality economic development, and promotes socialist democracy. Focus on the construction of the rule of law, do a good job in promoting ideological and cultural work, do a good job in ensuring people's livelihood and building ecological civilization, safeguarding national security and social stability, deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, strengthening the modernization of national defense and the army, doing a good job in Hong Kong and Macao and work with Taiwan, and promoting major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. The "14th Five-Year Plan" has successfully concluded, the "15th Five-Year Plan" has made a good start, and the cause of the party and the country has achieved new progress and new results. Carry out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political performance, and solemnly celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, further gathering the powerful force of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to unite and forge ahead. The plenary session reviewed the party's struggle over more than 100 years and pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party can move from victory to victory because it has the lofty ideals of communism, is determined to achieve the great cause of the Chinese nation, persists in seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, attaches great importance to party governance in all historical periods, has the courage to adhere to the truth, correct mistakes, and continues to grow stronger while relying on its own strength and the support of the people to solve its own problems, becoming the strong leadership core of the cause of the party and the people. In revolution, construction, and reform, party building has been regarded as a great project and a new great project. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have deeply promoted the new great project of party building in the new era and found two answers to "let the people supervise the government" and "self-revolution" that escape the historical cycle of the rise and fall of chaos. This is a unique creation of the Communist Party of China and will forever go down in the history of Marxist party building. The plenary session spoke highly of the great achievements made in comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era. It was unanimously agreed that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has used great political courage and strong responsibility to face the severe reality that the party's leadership has been weakened, the party's management has been lax and ineffective, and some problems within the party have been shocking, and it has unswervingly governed the party strictly in an all-round way, with the blade turned inward and inward. We have implemented strict laws and regulations to combat chaos, and continued to solve outstanding problems. We have fundamentally reversed the lax and weak situation in party governance, curbed some unhealthy trends that had not been stopped for a long time, rectified some stubborn diseases that had not been eliminated for many years, and eliminated serious hidden dangers within the party, state, and army. The party has become stronger and stronger through revolutionary forging. Comprehensive and strict governance of the party in the new era has opened up a new realm of self-revolution for the century-old party, promoted historic achievements and changes in the cause of the party and the country, and won the historical initiative of the party and the people to strengthen the party and the country. The plenary session pointed out that in the great practice of managing and governing the party and revitalizing and strengthening the party in the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has put forward a series of new ideas, new thoughts and new strategies around the major contemporary issues of what kind of Marxist party to be built for a long time in power and how to build a Marxist party to be in power for a long time, forming Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building. This thought enriches and develops the Marxist theory of party building. It is a major achievement of adhering to the integration of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with the excellent traditional culture of China to promote the party's theoretical innovation. It is the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the party and the people. It is an important part of Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and provides fundamental compliance and action guidance for further advancing the new great project of party building in the new era. The plenary session emphasized that there are many favorable conditions for comprehensively and strictly governing the party, but at the same time we are facing many new situations and new problems. As the state of the world and the country have undergone profound changes, the party's task of uniting and leading the people to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests has become more arduous. The party's task of uniting and leading the people to promote reform and development and maintain social harmony and stability has become even more arduous. These have brought major challenges to the party's governance ability, leadership level, team quality, and resistance to corruption and degeneration under the new situation. The "four major tests" and "four dangers" faced by the party are long-term, complex, and severe. From the strategic perspective of consolidating the party's long-term ruling status and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the entire party must deeply understand the significance of persevering in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party, strengthen confidence, maintain determination, and use higher standards and more practical measures to adhere to and apply the valuable experience of comprehensive and strict governance of the party in the new era, rectify and solve outstanding problems faced by party building, and consolidate and develop the good political situation formed by party management. The plenary session pointed out that to persistently promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, we must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents" and the Scientific Outlook on Development, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, Focusing on realizing the Party's mission and tasks, implementing the general requirements for Party building in the new era, taking the Party Constitution as the foundation, adhering to the Party's vanguard nature, upholding the Party's overall leadership and the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, focusing on improving the Party's long-term governance capabilities, maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity, and maintaining the Party's unity with the people flesh-and-blood ties, unswervingly adhere to the tone of strictness, improve the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the party, take the party's political construction as the guide, comprehensively promote the party's construction in all aspects, fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the whole party, constantly realize the party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation, self-improvement, and continue to Strengthen the party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal to ensure that the party remains at the forefront of the times, heartily supported by the people, a vibrant Marxist ruling party that can withstand the test of various storms, and remains a strong leadership core for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The plenary session emphasized that the principles to be followed in persevering to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party are: adhere to serving missions and tasks, adhere to the political construction of the party as the guide, adhere to comprehensive strictness, adhere to problem orientation, adhere to integrity and innovation, adhere to the leadership from above, and adhere to governing the party in accordance with regulations. The plenary session made systematic arrangements to continuously promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, emphasizing strengthening the party spirit of Communists, strictly implementing democratic centralism, forging a team of high-quality cadres worthy of the important task of national rejuvenation, building a strict organizational system that is consistent from top to bottom and with strong execution. The plenary session proposed that strengthening party spirit is the fundamental task of comprehensively and strictly governing the party. We must encourage all party members and cadres to adhere to the nature and purpose of the party, enhance party awareness, party member awareness, and vanguard awareness, take strengthening party spirit as a lifelong task, and work hard to strengthen ideals and beliefs, forge loyalty to the party, cultivate feelings for the people, persist in seeking truth from facts, pure moral character, and maintain integrity, so as to be loyal, clean, and responsible, and always maintain the political nature of a communist. It is necessary to strengthen the education of party loyalty, persist in using the party's innovative theory to condense the heart and soul, use the party's fine traditions and China's excellent traditional culture to cultivate the party spirit, temper the party spirit in practice, and strengthen the identification of party spirit. The plenary session proposed that democratic centralism is the party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and the implementation of democratic centralism is an inherent requirement for comprehensive and strict governance of the party. We must improve and implement various systems of democratic centralism, fully develop intra-party democracy, effectively implement correct centralization, and better leverage the political, organizational, institutional, and work advantages of democratic centralism. It is necessary to uphold and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, improve the quality of intra-party democracy, strictly implement the rules of decision-making and procedures of the leadership team, and standardize the performance of the duties and powers of the "top leaders". The plenary session proposed that the key to comprehensively and strictly administering the party is to strictly govern officials. It is necessary to implement the party's organizational line in the new era, strictly implement cadre education and training, selection and appointment, management and supervision, and build a team of high-quality cadres with strong politics, high skills, good work style and strict discipline. It is necessary to adhere to the correct employment orientation, select and employ people accurately and scientifically, promote cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political performance, enhance the entrepreneurial skills of cadres and officers, improve the quality of training and selecting outstanding young cadres, strengthen cadre management and supervision, and cultivate, introduce and make good use of talents in an all-round way. The plenary session proposed that party organizations at all levels are the main body of comprehensive and strict governance of the party. It is necessary to systematically promote the construction of party organizations at all levels and in all fields, strengthen the political and organizational functions of party organizations, and ensure the implementation of the party's lines, principles, policies and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee in a coordinated, precise and efficient manner. It is necessary to give full play to the exemplary role of party organizations in central and state organs, strengthen the functions of local party committees, coordinate the construction of grassroots party organizations in various fields, focus on party building in emerging fields, strengthen the building of party members, and improve the linking mechanism of party organizations at all levels. The plenary session proposed that improving work style and strengthening discipline is a powerful measure to comprehensively and strictly govern the party. We must adhere to the Party spirit, work style and Party disciplines, improve work style, eliminate discipline and fight corruption, deepen the application of the experience of starting from the work style to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, constantly improve the style of work, use strict discipline to manage the party and govern the party, and focus on a good image. It is necessary to follow the party's mass line in the new era, persevere in implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's eight regulations, promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction, strengthen strict discipline enforcement, and comprehensively play the role of discipline education in restraint and guarantee and encouragement. The plenary session proposed that the integrated promotion of not being able to corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, not wanting to be corrupt is an important strategy for comprehensively and strictly governing the party and the basic policy of the anti-corruption struggle. We must keep in mind that the party has no special interests other than the interests of the working class and the broadest masses of the people, and that the party and corruption are incompatible. We must firmly follow the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee on anti-corruption work, pay more attention to addressing both the symptoms and root causes, and implement systemic governance. We must adhere to strict punishment, precise governance, effective prevention, and integrated efforts to carry out the anti-corruption struggle to the end. It is necessary to maintain a high-pressure situation in punishing corruption, strengthen restrictions and supervision on the exercise of power, consolidate the ideological foundation of upholding integrity and resisting corruption, and enhance the comprehensive effectiveness of integrated promotion of those who dare not be corrupt, cannot be corrupt, and do not want to be corrupt. The plenary session proposed that strengthening the construction of intra-party laws and regulations is a long-term and fundamental strategy for comprehensively and strictly governing the party. We must adhere to the Party Constitution as the fundamental code of conduct for the entire Party, deepen the reform of the Party building system, promote the organic unity of governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to rules, and provide a strong institutional guarantee for the persistent advancement of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. It is necessary to improve the system of laws and regulations within the party, enhance system execution, and vigorously break hidden rules. The plenary session proposed that to continue to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, we must further improve the party and state supervision system. It is necessary to implement the comprehensive supervision of the party committee (party group), improve the dual leadership system of discipline inspection and supervision, promote the deep integration and efficient linkage of intra-party supervision and supervision of all aspects, and play the role of inspection and comprehensive supervision as a sword. The plenary session emphasized that it is the common political responsibility of the whole party to persist in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party. We must turn around the "big nose" of the responsibility system for party management and governance, improve the responsibility system in which each party takes its own responsibility and is unified and coordinated, optimize the evaluation mechanism for the implementation of responsibilities, and seriously hold accountable those who fail to manage and govern the party and serious problems occur. The plenary session pointed out that in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the entire party at present and in the future. It is necessary to thoroughly study and understand the spirit of the plenary session, strengthen organizational leadership, continue to work hard to solve outstanding problems, and promote the implementation of various arrangements in the "Decision". The plenary session emphasized the need to do a good job in various tasks at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. Adhere to the general tone of the work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, make good use of macro policies, deeply tap the potential of domestic demand, further deepen reform and opening up, promote the continuous development of the economy in a new direction, ensure that the main goals and tasks of economic and social development this year are completed, and achieve a good start in the "15th Five-Year Plan". We will coordinate development and security, strengthen inclusive, basic and comprehensive people's livelihood construction, and do a good job in production safety, disaster prevention, reduction and relief, food and drug safety and social stability. Consolidate and expand the results of learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political performance. In conjunction with the change of office, we should do a good job in training new members of the leadership team, especially "top leaders", on the concept of political performance. We should educate and guide them to consciously adhere to building the party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, working hard, striving to achieve political achievements for the people, and achieving political achievements through hard work. The plenary session decided that the 21st National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be held in Beijing in the second half of 2027. The plenary session held that the 21st Congress of the Party is a very important congress held by our party during the critical period of basically realizing socialist modernization and marching on a new journey towards the second centenary goal. It is a major event in the political life of the party and the country. The whole party must unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to work together as one and work hard to achieve socialist modernization, constantly create a new situation in comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization, and welcome the successful convening of the 21st Party Congress with practical actions. The plenary session elected Zhang Shengmin as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. In accordance with the provisions of the Party Constitution, the plenary session decided to replace alternate members of the Central Committee Lu Dongliang, Bao Gang, Xing Shanping, Qu Yingpu, Lu Jun, Zhu Tianshu, Zhu Guoxian, Liu Jun, Liu Jie and Liu Qiang as members of the Central Committee. The plenary session reviewed and approved the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection’s decision on the disciplinary action of Ma Xingrui, Lan Tianli, Liu Jianchao, Wang Lixia, Jin Zhuanglong, Lei Fanpei, Yi Huiman, Wang Xiangxi, Sun Shaocheng, Li Yunze, Fei Dongbin, Wu Shenghua, Yu Jianfeng, Yuan Jie, Zhang Zhongyang, Wen Gang, Jin Donghan, Fang The review report on serious violations of discipline and law by the Red Guards was reviewed and approved by the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on Zhang Youxia, Liu Zhenli, Wang Renhua, Liu Qingsong, Huang Ming, Li Qiaoming, Li Wei, Zhang Hongbing, Wang Haijiang, Zhang Lin, Wang Peng, Liu Faqing, Yang Cheng, Zhong Shaojun, Zhao Xiaozhe, The review report on Fang Yongxiang’s serious violations of discipline and law confirms the previous decision by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to award Ma Xingrui, Zhang Youxia, Liu Zhenli, Lan Tianli, Liu Jianchao, Wang Lixia, Jin Zhuanglong, Lei Fanpei, Yi Huiman, Wang Xiangxi, Sun Shaocheng, Wang Renhua, Liu Qingsong, Huang Ming, and Li Qiao Ming, Li Wei, Zhang Hongbing, Wang Haijiang, Zhang Lin, Wang Peng, Liu Faqing, Yang Cheng, Zhong Shaojun, Zhao Xiaozhe, Fei Dongbin, Wu Shenghua, Yu Jianfeng, Yuan Jie, Zhang Zhongyang, Wen Gang, Jin Donghan, Fang Hongwei, Fang Yongxiang were expelled from the party, and Li Yunze was revoked from his party position. The plenary session called for the entire party to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, work hard and work hard, persevere to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, constantly create a new situation of governing the party, rejuvenating and strengthening the party in the new era, and unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country to make unremitting efforts to comprehensively build a modern and powerful socialist country and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. (CCTV News)