Party plenum highlights institutional reform

Two sessions play key role in rallying CPC, nation to unite in endeavor to build modern socialist country, says meeting

A key meeting of the Communist Party of China has adopted a draft plan for the reform of Party and State institutions as part of broader efforts to enhance the Party's leadership over the nation's socialist modernization.

A communique released after the second plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which was held in Beijing from Sunday to Tuesday, said the meeting agreed to submit part of the draft plan for deliberation to the first session of the 14th National People's Congress, which will open in Beijing on Sunday.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made an important speech at the three-day meeting, which was presided over by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and attended by 203 full members and 170 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee.