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October 22, 2022: CCP Wraps up its 20th Meeting
China’s Communist Party (CCP) has completed its 20th five-yearly Congress on Saturday, October 22, 2022. 2296 delegates represented 96.7 million members of CCP at the meeting from 16th October 2022 to 22nd October 2022.
The CCP Congress endorsed the membership list of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and elected the 20th Central Committee. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is tasked with enforcing internal rules and regulations and combating corruption and malfeasance in the party.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China comprises the top leaders of CCP. It is currently composed of 205 full members and 171 alternate members. Members are nominally elected once every five years by the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The Committee usually convenes at least once a year at a plenary session (“plenum”).
One widely reported incident of the Congress when the former President Hu Jintao (March 15, 2003 to- March 14, 2013), who was sitting next to President Xi Jinping, was unexpectedly led out of Saturday’s closing ceremony of the CCP Congress in a dramatic moment that disrupted the highly choreographed event. The official version is that Hu Jintao was led out by his staff, since he was not feeling well. Others say that 79 years-old former President was dragged out, even though he did not want to leave.