Key meeting of China's political elites underway in Beijing

• The meeting, known as the sixth plenum, is imbued with special significance, since it is occurring in the same year as the CCP's 100th anniversary.

What to watch: Xi is expected to deliver a resolution on the party's history —becoming only the third Chinese leader to issue such a proclamation, after Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.

• “The 1945 resolution affirmed Mao’s leadership in the CCP, and the 1981 resolution was about turning a new page from the decade-long destructive chaos of Cultural Revolution Mao created,” Dali Yang, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, told The Guardian.
• “This year’s resolution will be somewhere in between — the party’s past and Xi’s future.”

Details: The Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, comprised of more than 300 top party members, meets for a plenary session each year.

• The members of the current Central Committee were selected in 2017; this is the current committee's sixth plenary session.
• A new committee will be selected next year at the party congress.

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