Senior legislators study guiding principles of key Party plenum

EIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Leading Party members of China's national legislature met on Friday to study the guiding principles from the just-concluded fifth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

The fifth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee is presided over by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing, capital of China. (Photo: Xinhua)

During the plenum, which was held from Monday to Thursday, participants deliberated on and adopted the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Certain Major Issues concerning Persevering with Full and Rigorous Party Self-Governance.

The Friday meeting of the leading Party members group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) also discussed measures to implement the guiding principles of the plenum in the practical work of people's congresses.

Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and secretary of its leading Party members group, presided over the meeting and delivered remarks.

The meeting stated that the resolution comprehensively summarizes the achievements and experience of full and rigorous Party self-governance in the new era, conducts an in-depth analysis of the situation and tasks facing Party building, and makes strategic arrangements for the Party's endeavors to supervise, govern, develop and strengthen itself both at present and in the period to come.

It noted that high-quality Party building should lead the high-quality development of the work of people's congresses, stressing the need to uphold the Party's overall leadership over the work and integrate law-based governance of the country and regulation-based self-governance of the Party.