The Fourth Plenary Session of the16th Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in Beijing Thursday.
During the four-day plenum, the CPC central committee will hear
a work report of the committee's Political Bureau while
deliberating on issues concerning the improvement of the Party's
ruling capacity.
It is the first time for a CPC Central Committee plenum to put
the building of the Party's ruling capacity on the top of the
agenda, analysts here said.
The analysts expected that the Party's ruling capacity building
will focus on issues such as how to pursue the policy of governing
the country according to law, how to better handle the relations
between the Party and the government, and how to improve its
governance in line with the development of market economy.
The plenum was convened according to a decision made at a July
meeting of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau. The meeting
held that enhancing the Party's ruling capacity is a major issue of
strategic importance to the fate of both the building of socialism
and the Chinese nation.
(Xinhua News Agency September 16, 2004)