Party Congress Press Conference

Tuo Zhen, the spokesperson for the 19th CPC National Congress in his first press conference to the media said, that out of proposed 2300 party congress delegates, the final attendee are 2280 only. This is the third list, and twice revised after the earlier 2287 slated to attend the party congress. Thus earlier 13 were ‘disinvited’ and now further 7 delegate members were again disqualified.

Some of the delegates' social/occupational background:

• 33.8 percent represented grassroots organizations

• 8.7 percent are workers

• 3.8 percent are farmers

• 12.4 percent are trained technicians

• 12 percent from the PLA

• 70 percent and more are less than 55 years of age

• Most of party delegates joined the party since the gaige kaifang

CPC Politburo Members and Representations

The 19^th CPC National Congress is beginning on Wednesday, 18^th October 2017, that is tomorrow. Sharing this table that shows where the 25 Politburo (PB) members have chosen their constituencies. This time ‘Tibet’ is not represented by the existing 25 PB members.  Wu Yingjie,  the current Tibet party secretary, and a Xi loyalist is speculated to become one of the PB member.

Xi Jinping has made sure no province will have more than one Politburo representations. In 2012, Shanghai alone had three members in the Politburo- Xi Jinping; Yu Zhengsheng and Han Zheng. Going with the principle of “qishang ba xia”,  that is on the eve of the congress, if the incumbent leader reaches the age of 67 years then he/she can stay for next one term, but if 68 years then the incumbent has to retire, the readers will also find who are going to stay and retain their positions in the Politburo and among whom some will be promoted to the PB Standing Committee.

**Expelled, and under investigation. He is replaced by Chen Miner, a Xi confidant, who is a probable candidate for the PBSC.

Run-up to the Party Congress: What does the statistics say?

On Tuesday, 10^th October, just one-week before the 19^th National Congress of the CPC, the party-state’s national data centre—National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released a data on the state of the economy in China since the last party congress. So let us see what the figures tell? Who is to stake the claim of the achievements or take a blame: the leader or the party? But everything seems rosy as of now. These statistics also have included the investments and trade flows among the Belt and Road countries. The report also says that under Xi Jinping’s ‘core leadership’ the Chinese nation has ‘blazed new trails’ for realizing the Chinese dream. But the contribution of Hu-Wen leadership steering the economy post-2008 crisis cannot be ignored, even if Xi has!

Source: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201710/t20171010_1540652.html