Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the top echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events in the country’s political calendar. In the fourth part of this seriesWilliam Zheng examines how the party’s next generation is being formed.
When Chinese political elites meet behind closed doors in Beijing for the Fifth Plenum of the Communist Party Much of the focus on Monday will be on quiet preparations for the allocation of hundreds of key roles at next year’s 21st party congress.
At the heart of this transition is the rise of seventh generation of the party – often called the 7Gs – born in the late 1960s and 1970s and whose rise will be decisive in shaping China’s political trajectory.
Xie Maosong, a senior researcher at the National Institute of Strategic Studies at Tsinghua University, said the party was looking for cadres with “absolute political loyalty, integrity, fighting spirit, technological or ‘hard science’ expertise, field experience and resilience in the face of difficulties.”
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