Xinhua (October 18) and the state-run CCTV announced (October 18) that the 19th CCP Central
Committee will hold its sixth plenary session in Beijing from Nov. 8 to 11, during which a key
resolution on the major achievements and historical experience of the Party's 100 years of
endeavours will be reviewed. It said this was decided at a Politburo meeting on October 18, which
was presided over by CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping. It said Xi Jinping also chaired a
symposium to hear from the central committees of the non-CPC political parties, the head of the
All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and individuals with no party affiliation. Xinhua
added that the draft has won wide recognition from various regions, departments, and sides, along
with delegates to the 19th CCP National Congress. Xinhua observed "The Party, the military, and
the public became united as never before. China’s international status has further consolidated". It
also said, “The CPC and the Chinese people have solemnly declared to the world through heroic
and tenacious struggle that the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up,
becoming rich to becoming strong, and the realisation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
has become a historical inevitability.” CCTV added "The meeting emphasized that in the long
course of the party’s struggle, the Chinese Communists, with Comrades Mao Zedong, Deng
Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao as the main representatives, have united and led the entire
party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to promote revolution, construction, and
reform, and have made major achievements and accumulated valuable resources." The meeting also
cautioned that "the whole party must bear in mind that it was born in trouble and died in peace, always think about it, and be prepared for danger in times of peace, continue to promote the new
great project of party building in the new era."
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