Key CPC session highlights strength of China's system, governance

The session underscored:

-- Upholding and improving the system of institutions for Party leadership to improve its capacity to practice scientific, democratic and law-based governance;

-- Upholding and improving the system of institutions through which the people run the country and developing socialist democracy;

-- Upholding and improving the system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and improving the Party's capacity for law-based governance and law-based exercising of state power;

-- Upholding and improving the government administration system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. A law-based government administration with well-defined functions and duties shall be built, it added;

-- Upholding and improving China's basic socialist economic system and promoting the high-quality development of the economy;

-- Upholding and improving the system to make advanced socialist culture prosperous and developed to consolidate the common ideological foundation upon which all people are united and work together;

-- Upholding and improving the livelihood system for protecting both urban and rural residents and working to meet people's ever-increasing needs for a better life;

-- Upholding and improving the social governance system based on collaboration, participation and common interests, as well as maintaining social stability and defending national security;

-- Upholding and improving the system for developing an ecological civilization and promoting the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature;

-- Upholding and improving the Party's absolute leadership over the armed forces and ensuring that they will faithfully fulfill their missions in the new era;

-- Upholding and improving the system of "one country, two systems" and advancing the process toward the peaceful reunification of China;

-- Upholding and improving the independent foreign policy of peace and working to build a community with a shared future for humanity;

-- Upholding and improving the Party and state oversight systems and strengthening checks on and oversight over the exercise of power.

The session was attended by 202 members of the CPC Central Committee and 169 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee.

Also present were members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), senior officials of relevant departments, a number of delegates to the 19th CPC National Congress who work at the grass-roots level as well as experts and scholars.

The plenary session decided to admit two alternate members of the CPC Central Committee -- Ma Zhengwu and Ma Weiming -- into the Central Committee as full members.

The session also reviewed and adopted a CCDI investigation report on the severe violations of Party discipline and the law by Liu Shiyu, confirming the punishment previously decided by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee that he would be placed on probation within the Party for two years.