Word: plenum
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...Corruption in China is widespread. The report of the recently concluded plenum of the Communist Party's Central Committee noted "serious corruption in some areas, departments and units" and called the "struggle against corruption" a "major political task." In the first half of this year, government prosecutors opened 20,000 cases against officials who were allegedly taking bribes. Last year, according to the government, more than 250 officials were removed for buying their positions in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang?the post of county Party chief went for $35,000. Just last month, prosecutors revealed an investigation of 200 education...
...Commission and hence commander of the People's Liberation Army. Hu Jintao, who succeeded Jiang as Party chief and President, wants to consolidate his own power. Last week, a report in the New York Times suggested that Jiang may give up his army position at a key Communist Party plenum this week. There is no consensus in Beijing on whether such an outcome is likely. But with rumors swirling, cancellation of the Olympic stadiums gained added significance. Older Chinese remember that in 1979, Deng Xiaoping signaled his rise to power by canceling 10 massive industrial projects championed by his rival...
...Chinese central government made a series of politically motivated decisions that allowed the disease to gain deadly footholds in Beijing and elsewhere. Several Chinese officials have told me that a consideration in covering up?or, as one put it, "not mentioning"?the disease was the timing of the plenum of the National People's Congress, which convened in March. The country's top law-making body was then rubber-stamping the selection of a new President, and an unseemly new infectious disease could have been seen as besmirching heaven's mandate. This was a political decision that cost human lives...
...case today, the rewards of such progress were spread very unevenly among China's huge population. There was a yawning divide between the fast-developing urban coastal regions, epitomized by Shanghai, and the vast, underdeveloped rural interior?a divide spotlighted at last week's Communist Party plenum in Beijing as a priority for action. The faster China grew, boosted by foreign investment and technology, the greater the wealth gap and the fault line in society. Then, as now, a pervasive internal security apparatus kept tabs on an evolving society. Chiang also sought a reform of personal conduct with...
...Last week's Party plenum showed that President Hu Jintao's administration is aware of the need to be more responsive about China's social problems?but it skirted the issue of political reform. Unless it tackles that, along with a determined effort to broaden its appeal in ways which address popular concerns, the heirs of the victory of 1949 could find themselves sharing Chiang's predicament...