What will China’s fifth plenum mean for the root-and-branch corruption drive?
The four-day party meeting will pave the way for one of the most extensive turnovers of personnel in modern Chinese political history
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. In the second part of this series, William Zheng and Alcott Wei examine how the fight against corruption is shaping the party’s future.
The four-day closed-door meeting comes roughly one year ahead of the 21st National Party Congress in late 2027 and is poised to formalise one of the most extensive turnovers of senior party, state and military personnel in modern Chinese political history.
