Plenum adopts resolution on Party self-governance

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has adopted a resolution on persevering with full and rigorous Party self-governance as it concluded its fifth plenary session, according to Xinhua News Agency. The Politburo presided over the meeting. President Xi Jinping, who's also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered an important address, and a communique was issued after the session. At the session, participants considered and adopted the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Certain Major Issues concerning Persevering with Full and Rigorous Party Self-Governance. Xi delivered explanatory remarks on the draft of the resolution. The CPC Central Committee gave a highly positive assessment of the great achievements the Party has made in exercising full and rigorous self-governance in the new era, Xinhua reported. "It was stressed that many favourable conditions are now in place for advancing full and rigorous Party self-governance, while we also face many new circumstances and new issues in this endeavour," the communique said. Profound changes in global, national and Party conditions have made the CPC's tasks of uniting and leading the people in safeguarding China's sovereignty, security, and development interests, of uniting and leading the people in promoting reform and development and...