President Xi Jinping will preside over the final meeting of China’s top leaders, days before the opening of a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress that’s set to hand him a landmark third term in power.
The closed-door gathering of the roughly 370 members and alternate members of the Central Committee was scheduled to begin Sunday in Beijing, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
The conclave will review the speech Xi will deliver at the start of the congress on Oct. 16, the most authoritative policy statement in the world’s second-largest economy every five years. A draft amendment to the party constitution, which could see Xi’s doctrine further elevated, will also be discussed, along with a report by the party’s top anti-corruption body, according to state media.
