The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which opened on November 8, will close in Beijing Thursday morning.
At the closing session, delegates to the congress will elect the 16th CPC Central Committee and a new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).
The delegates are also expected to pass resolutions on the report of the 15th CPC Central Committee, the work report of the CCDI and an amendment to the Constitution of the CPC.
The congress, the first of its kind convened by the CPC in the new century, is of great importance in the new situation in which China has begun to take the third step of its strategic plan for socialist modernization.
(Xinhua News Agency November 14, 2002)
