The Canada Brief

World · 8 d ago

Modern building in Beijing

China's Communist Party leaders open a four-day meeting on party discipline

Central Committee members attending

300 members, roughly

Roughly 300 members of the Central Committee are attending the closed-door plenum, which began on Monday and ends Thursday.

President Xi Jinping wants more loyalty from officials as his 14-year anticorruption campaign continues. Eight Central Committee seats are vacant and 15 members are under investigation.

Central Military Commission

5 members toppled 2 members remain

Five of the seven members of the military commission have been toppled by the purges, and the plenum could name new ones.