The Chinese Communist Party will likely begin its much-anticipated congress on Oct. 18, state media said, officially starting the clock on the country’s biggest political reshuffle since 2012.
The Chinese Communist Party will likely begin its much-anticipated congress on Oct. 18, state media said, officially starting the clock on the country’s biggest political reshuffle since 2012.
The 19th Party Congress’s proposed start date was announced Thursday after a meeting of the party’s Politburo, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. While the schedule is technically a recommendation and requires approval from the broader Central Committee, that’s usually a formality.
The gathering of some 2,300 party delegates — held every five years in Beijing — will provide President Xi Jinping his biggest opportunity to reshuffle scores of top positions across the government and write his policies into the party’s guiding documents. As many as five of the seven officials on the Politburo’s elite Standing Committee — and roughly half of the broader Central Committee — could be replaced.
