15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was in session from 1997 to 2002. It held seven plenary sessions.

It elected the 15th Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 1997.

Members

In stroke order of surnames:

Brief chronology

1. 1st Plenary Session
   • Date: September 19, 1997
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: Jiang Zemin was appointed CPC General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. A 24-members Politburo, a 7-members Politburo Standing Committee and a 7-members Secretariat were elected.
2. 2nd Plenary Session
   • Date: February 25–26, 1998
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: The meeting approved lists of nominees for top posts of the 9th National People's Congress and the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferece and a proposal for reforming the State Council.
3. 3rd Plenary Session
   • Date: October 12–14, 1998
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: The meeting reviewed the previous 20 years of economic reform and set the goal to establish new rural towns according to socialism with Chinese characteristics by 2010.
4. 4th Plenary Session
   • Date: September 19–22, 1999
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: The reform of the State-owned enterprises was launched aiming at establishing a "modern enterprise system". Hu Jintao was appointed vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission.
5. 5th Plenary Session
   • Date: October 9–11, 2000
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: Zhu Rongji delivered a report on the guidelines for 10th Five-Year Plan, proclaiming modernization, opening up and technological progress as its basic goals. The meeting also decided upon China's accession to the World Trade Organization and urged the Party to apply Jiang Zemin's Three Represents, exposed by the Chinese President in February of the same year.
6. 6th Plenary Session
   • Date: September 24–26, 2001
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: The meeting celebrated the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the CPC, with Jiang Zeming speaking about it, and adopted a Decision of the CPC Central Committee to Strenghten and Improve the Party's Work Style based on the Three Represents, allowing capitalists to join the Party.
7. 7th Plenary Session
   • Date: November 3–5, 2002
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: Preparations for the Party's 16th National Congress were made. The meeting proclaimed Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Three Represents as the guideline for China "in the new century and new stage of reform and opening up and socialist modernization".

External links

• (Chinese) 15th Central Committee of the CPC, People's Daily Online.

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