16th CPC National Congress Proposed in November

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16th CPC National Congress Proposed in November

The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is proposed to be convened in Beijing as of November 8 this year. All preparatory work for the congress is progressing smoothly at present.

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The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is proposed to be convened in Beijing as of November 8 this year.

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has decided at a recent plenary meeting to make the proposal to the 7th Plenum of the 15th CPC Central Committee to be held soon. All preparatory work for the congress is progressing smoothly at present.

The 16th CPC National Congress, the first Party congress in the new century, is a very important meeting to be held at a time when China has entered a new development stage of ushering in a fairly comfortable life for the people in a comprehensive manner and accelerating its socialist modernization drive.

The congress will hold high the banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and comprehensively carry out the important thoughts of "Three Represents," which call on the CPC to always represent the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people.

The congress will review the Party's work in the past five years since its 15th National Congress, and sum up the basic experience the Party has acquired from its efforts to unite and lead people of all ethnic groups for the great practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics since the beginning of reform and opening up, especially since the 4th plenum of the 13th CPC Central Committee in 1989.

The congress is also expected to make strategic arrangements for the overall advancement of China's reform and opening up and socialist modernization drive, as well as for the overall advancement of the grand project of Party building in the new century and the new development stage.

The congress will further mobilize the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups to emancipate their minds, seek truth from facts, progress with the times, be bold and creative, and strive together for a new development of the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.

A new CPC Central Committee and a new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection will be elected at the congress.

The Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China, founded in Shanghai in July 1921, is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the faithful representative of the interests of the people of all ethnic groups in China, and the force at the core leading China's cause of socialism. The Party's ultimate goal is the creation of a communist social system.

The CPC takes Marxism-Lenimism and Mao Zedong Thoughts as its guide to action.

The CPC led the people of all ethnic groups in waging a prolonged revolutionary struggle against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism, winning victory in the new democratic revolution and establishing the People's Republic of China -- a people's democratic dictatorship. After the founding of the people's Republic, the CPC led them in smoothly carrying out socialist transformation, completing the transition from New Democracy to socialism, establishing the socialist system, and developing socialism in its economic, political and cultural aspects.

The general task of the CPC at the present stage is to unite the people of all ethnic groups in working hard and self-reliantly to achieve, step by step, the modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology and make China a culturally advanced and highly democratic socialist country.

Any Chinese worker, peasant, member of the armed forces, intellectual or any other revolutionary who has reached the age of 18, accepts the Party's Program and Constitution and is willing to join and work actively in one of the Party organizations, carry out the Party's decisions and pay membership dues regularly, may apply for membership of the CPC. Its membership increased from 70 in 1921 to over 50 million in 1991.

The highest leading body of the Party is the National Congress and the Central Committee elected by it. The National Congress of the Party is held once every five years and convened by the Central Committee.

CPC National Congresses

Session Time Venue

First Jul. 1-5, 1921 Shanghai

Second Jul. 16-23, 1922 Shanghai

Third Jun. 10-20, 1923 Guangzhou

Fourth Jan. 11-22, 1925 Shanghai

Fifth Apr. 27, 1927 Wuhan

Sixth Jun. 18-Jul. 11, 1928 Moscow, USSR

Seventh Apr. 23-Jun. 11, 1945 Yan'an

Eighth Sept. 15-27, 1956 Beijing

Ninth Apr. 1-24, 1969 Beijing

Tenth Aug. 24-28, 1973 Beijing

Eleventh Aug. 12-18, 1977 Beijing

Twelvth Sept. 1-11, 1982 Beijing

Thirteenth Oct. 25-Nov. 1, 1987 Beijing

Fourteenth Oct.12-18, 1992 Beijing

Fifteenth Sept.12-19, 1997 Beijing

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