Delegates ready to chart a course for next 5 years
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ALL 38 delegations to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China are now in Beijing.
Delegates had begun arriving in the capital by plane, train and bus on Sunday.
The delegations represent the Chinese mainland’s 31 provincial regions, departments of the Party’s Central Committee, central government organs, enterprises controlled by the central government, the central financial system, the People’s Liberation Army, the Armed Police, and Party members of Taiwan origin.
More than 2,200 delegates, chosen from more than 89 million members across the nation, will attend the twice-a-decade congress, due to open tomorrow.
The delegates will deliberate an 18th Central Committee report, a Central Commission for Discipline Inspection work report and an amendment to the Party’s constitution at the congress.
The congress is also expected to unveil new Party leadership and set a blueprint for national development for the next five years and beyond.
“Besides deliberating the two reports and the amendment, we as delegates will elect a new Central Committee and a new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. These are the three key things we must focus on,” said Zhao Qinghua, head nurse of First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.
Zhao brought three documents to Beijing — a speech made by General Secretary of the Central Committee Xi Jinping during a tour to Chongqing in 2016, her own observations of medical reform in Chongqing and a report on senior citizen health care.
“It’s important for me to bring the voice of the people I represent to the congress and make suggestions accordingly,” she said.
The delegates represent over 89 million Party members nationwide. Attendees include high-ranking government officials, Party leaders, and military officers as well as grassroots Party members such as sportsmen, farmers, technicians, doctors and teachers.
Zhao Shiyong, Party secretary of Suining in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, said he expected the successes of the Party over the past five years to be put into theory and serve as an example for the future.
“Personally, I will look to how the Party will plan in protecting the environment and attaining quality growth,” he said.
A total of 2,287 delegates have been selected to attend this year’s congress. Of them, 771 are from the grassroots, or 33.7 percent of the total number.
“General Secretary Xi is a man of action. I expect him to continue to lead the country and guide people to build a better life with our own hands,” said Deng Yingxiang, Party secretary of Mahuai, a village in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.
She expressed the hope that the new leadership would continue to push ahead with anti-poverty work.
“In three years, I believe each and every family at our village will have a car and a big house as they wish,” she said.
“The great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new phase. The congress will tell the world what our new goals are and what we should do to achieve the goals,” said Liu Jiongtian, a delegate and president of Zhengzhou University in Henan Province.
Chen Jizhuang, a delegate and chairman of Benxi Steel Group in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, said: “I expect the congress to respond to the needs and dreams of the people, make strategic and forward-looking decisions, and lead the people to build an even more prosperous and stronger nation.”
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