The meeting, according to the official Xinhua News service, will focus on the issue of “party discipline”. The Sixth Plenum, as the meeting is known, comes as the party—which has more than 88 million members—faces a period of tectonic change. Several measures have already been introduced to make sure party members toe Xi’s line, he added, including prohibitions against officials making “groundless criticism”. “Only one person in the party, namely Xi Jinping, has the right to define what the political rules are,” Lam added. Xi is also China’s president, but derives his power from his Communist Party post.

Source: Mint October 23, 2016 06:33 UTC