BEIJING (APP) – A key conclave of China’s Communist Party elite kicked off Monday in Beijing, the official Xinhua news service reported, as leader Xi Jinping seeks to tighten his control over the organisation.
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Nearly 400 top members of the world’s most powerful political party have gathered at the exclusive Jingxi Hotel to discuss changes to party structure and management for four days.
They will focus on reforming the “norms for political life” and the party’s internal rules for supervising cadres, Xinhua said.
The dry rhetoric around the Sixth Plenum, as the meeting is known, hides what may be a ferocious, high-stakes battle for control over the world’s second-largest economy.
“This year’s plenum on party-building is key to Xi’s entire political project, and could very well turn out to be the most important of his first term,” said Trey McArver, China analyst at Trusted Sources.
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It “looks certain to further consolidate his grip over the party”, he added.
Since taking its helm in 2012, General Secretary Xi Jinping has sought to bend it to his will, and taken control of more levers of power than any leader since Mao Zedong.