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.
(Xinhua News Agency August 25, 2002)
