China’s Communist Party to hold its 20th 10-day Congress

Local residents sing songs at a citizen square in Yan’an city, in China a day ahead of the 20th Communist Party congress. Pic/AFP

China's ruling Communist Party will hold over a week-long 20th party congress from October 16-22, a party spokesperson announced on Saturday. The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will open at 10 am today at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and conclude on October 22, lasting seven days, state media outlet quoted congress spokesperson Sun Yeli as saying.

Addressing a press conference, spokesperson Sun Yeli said the qualifications of 2,296 delegates to the 20th National Congress of CCP have been confirmed valid. The delegates will attend the 20th CCP National Congress, representing more than 96 million CPC members and over 4.9 million primary-level Party organisations, he added.

China's most important political event of 2022, and indeed of the coming five years, will kick off on October 16 when the 20th National Congress of the ruling CCP and its 90 million members convene. Regional experts say that Chairman Xi Jinping will undoubtedly extend his term in power for another five years.

He will either be re-elected as general secretary of the CCP, or will be newly elected as chairman of the CCP, a title that has lain dormant since 1982 and was once the highest position ever held by Mao Zedong.

The congress is taking place at one of the most perilous periods in international affairs in recent years. A war is raging in Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin attempts to burnish his credentials as a great Russian leader, and China remains a staunch supporter of this would-be tsar. At the same time, Taiwan Strait tensions are at their highest in decades, as China attempts to pummel Taipei into acquiescence.

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