China Leadership Monitor No. 20

Winter 2007:
Party Affairs
By Alice L. Miller

The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s Sixth Plenum in October last year passed a long resolution endorsing a major theme—building a “socialist harmonious society”—that the Hu Jintao leadership has pressed since 2004. The plenum also deferred addressing party and army leadership personnel issues that it might have taken up. In so doing, the plenum’s proceedings provided new clues to the ambiguities of Hu Jintao’s power in the current party leadership.

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