The 15th plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee concluded on Tuesday morning after two days of intensive working, completing all agenda items with a high degree of consensus and quality. In his ...

North Korea on Tuesday opened an enlarged plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, accelerating preparations for a rare party congress early next year while simultaneously firing ...

The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China convened its fourth plenary session from Oct 20 to Oct 23. Participants deliberated and adopted the central committee's recommendations for ...

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Chairman Xi Jinping’s tightening grip on power was on full display at the Chinese Communist Party’s Fourth Plenary Session, where strikingly low attendance and a record number of disciplinary actions ...

ALL China’s plenums are consequential. But some are more consequential than others. Amid underwhelming macro data, slowing domestic economic growth and quickening tensions with the US, the Fourth ...

This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. After China’s ruling Communist Party concluded the fourth ...

With regard to the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (the Fourth Plenum), which concluded on the 23rd, a Chinese state-run media outlet issued what ...

A key body of the ruling Chinese Communist Party reaffirmed the "core" leadership of President Xi Jinping as the head of the party and the powerful military, as it ended its four-day meeting on ...

China has restated its commitment to a years-long official focus on achieving self-reliance in science and technology, so that it can meet what it has acknowledged as "profound and complex" changes.

Xi Jinping maintains firm control after the Fourth Plenum with minimal leadership changes, despite online speculation of political struggles. General Zhang Shengmin was promoted to CMC vice-chairman, ...

Jonathan Czin of the Brookings Institution explains why the Chinese Communist Party's Fourth Plenum, the most important party meeting of the year, matters for the country's next five-year plan, recent ...