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CPC National Congress comes to close (11/14/2002)
The closing session of the week-long 16th National Congress of
the Communist Party of China (CPC) started at 9:00 a.m. Thursday
in the Great Hall of the People.
Jiang Zemin presided over the session.
At the closing session, delegates to the congress will elect the
16th CPC Central Committee and a new Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection (CCDI).
The delegates are also expected to pass resolutions on the report
of the 15th CPC Central Committee, the work report of the CCDI and
an amendment to the Constitution of the CPC.
The congress, the first of its kind convened by the CPC in the new
century, is of great importance in the new situation in which China
has begun to take the third step of its strategic plan for socialist
modernization.
(Xinhua)
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