Communiqu é of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC

Communiqu é of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC

(Adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC on October 23, 2025)

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC will be held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2025.

There are 168 Central Committee members and 147 alternate Central Committee members attending this plenary session. Members of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and relevant officials attended the meeting as observers. Some grassroots comrades and experts and scholars from the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also attended the meeting as observers.

The plenary session is presided over by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. General Secretary of the Central Committee Xi Jinping delivered an important speech.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC will be held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2025. The Central Political Bureau presides over the meeting. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Haitao

The plenary session listened to and discussed Xi Jinping's work report entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and reviewed and approved the "Proposals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development." Xi Jinping made an explanation to the plenary session on the proposal (discussion draft).

The plenary session fully affirmed the work of the Central Political Bureau since the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It is unanimously agreed that the Central Political Bureau earnestly implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all previous plenary sessions, adheres to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully and accurately implements the new development concept, coordinates the overall layout of the "Five in One" and the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, coordinates the domestic and international situations, coordinates development and security, further comprehensively deepens reform, solidly promotes high-quality development, promotes socialist democracy and the rule of law construction, strengthens propaganda, ideological and cultural work, effectively guarantees people's livelihoods and ecological environment protection, safeguards national security and social stability, carries out in-depth study and education on the spirit of the Central Eight point Regulation, comprehensively promotes strict governance of the Party, strengthens the modernization of national defense and the military, does a good job in Hong Kong and Macao work and Taiwan work, and deeply promotes China's characteristic diplomacy as a major country, To promote sustained economic recovery and improvement, the main goals and tasks of the 14th Five Year Plan are about to be successfully completed. The grand commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti Fascist War greatly uplifts the national spirit, inspires patriotic enthusiasm, and consolidates the strength of struggle.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will be held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2025. This is Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and others on the rostrum. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Hong

The plenary session spoke highly of the major achievements made in China's development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. The course of China's development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period is extremely unusual and extraordinary. In the face of the complex international situation and the arduous and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, has united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to face up to the difficulties and forge ahead, to withstand the severe impact of the epidemic in the century, to effectively respond to a series of major risks and challenges, and to promote the Party and the country to achieve new major achievements. my country's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have leapt to a new level, Chinese-style modernization has taken new solid steps, and the new journey of the second centenary goal has achieved a good start.

The plenary session pointed out that achieving socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progression and continuous development and progress, which requires unremitting efforts and continuous struggle. The period of the 15th Five Year Plan is a crucial period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to achieve socialist modernization, and plays an important role in carrying forward the past and opening up the future in the process of achieving socialist modernization. During the 15th Five Year Plan period, China's development environment is facing profound and complex changes. China's development is in a period of strategic opportunities and risks, as well as increasing uncertainties and unpredictable factors. Our country's economic foundation is stable, with many advantages, strong resilience, and great potential. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. The advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of a super large market, the advantages of a complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant talent resources are more prominent. The whole party should deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishment", strengthen the "four consciousness", firm the "four self-confidence", and achieve the "two maintenance", maintain strategic determination, enhance confidence in winning, actively recognize changes and seek changes, dare to struggle, be good at fighting, and dare to face the major test of high winds and waves, even rough waves, with a historical initiative to overcome difficulties, combat risks, meet challenges, focus on doing their own thing, continue to write a new chapter of the two wonders of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and strive to create a new situation of Chinese path to modernization.

The plenary session emphasized that the economic and social development during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "Three Represents", and the scientific development concept, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and thoroughly implement The spirit of the 20th National Congress and the 20th Plenary Session of the Party, centering on building a modern socialist power in an all-round way and realizing the second century, promote the overall layout of the "five in one", coordinate the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, coordinate the overall domestic and international situations, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and adhere to the general tone of the work of seeking progress while maintaining stability Adhere to economic construction as the center, to promote high-quality development as the theme, to reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, and to meet the people's growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose, taking the comprehensive and strict governance of the party as the fundamental guarantee, we will promote the effective improvement of the economy and the reasonable growth of quantity, promote the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people, and ensure that decisive progress is made in the basic realization of socialist modernization.

The plenary session pointed out that the economic and social development during the 15th Five Year Plan period must follow the following principles: adhering to the comprehensive leadership of the Party, putting the people first, promoting high-quality development, comprehensively deepening reforms, combining effective markets with proactive governments, and promoting coordinated development and security.

The plenary session proposed the main goals for economic and social development during the 15th Five Year Plan period: achieving significant results in high-quality development, greatly improving the level of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, making new breakthroughs in further deepening reforms, significantly improving the level of social civilization, continuously improving the quality of people's lives, making new significant progress in building a beautiful China, and consolidating the national security barrier. On this basis, we will strive for another five years to achieve a significant leap in China's economic strength, technological strength, national defense strength, comprehensive national strength, and international influence by 2035. The per capita GDP will reach the level of a moderately developed country, people's lives will be happier and better, and socialist modernization will be basically achieved.

The plenary session proposed to build a modern industrial system and consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy. Adhere to the focus of economic development on the real economy, adhere to the direction of intelligence, greenness, and integration, accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power, quality power, aerospace power, transportation power, and network power, maintain a reasonable proportion of manufacturing industry, and build a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing industry as the backbone. To optimize and enhance traditional industries, cultivate and strengthen emerging and future industries, promote high-quality and efficient development of the service industry, and build a modern infrastructure system.

The plenary session proposed to accelerate the self-reliance and self-improvement of high-level science and technology, and lead the development of new quality productive forces. Seize the historical opportunity of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate the construction of a strong education country, a strong science and technology country, and a strong talent country, enhance the overall efficiency of the national innovation system, comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities, seize the high ground of scientific and technological development, and continuously stimulate new quality productivity. We need to strengthen original innovation and key core technology research, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, promote the development of education, science and technology talents, and deepen the construction of a digital China.

The plenary session proposed to build a strong domestic market and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern. Adhere to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, closely integrate benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, investing in goods and investing in people, lead new supply with new demand, create new demand with new supply, promote the benign interaction between consumption and investment, supply and demand, and enhance the vitality and reliability of the domestic circulation. We must vigorously boost consumption, expand effective investment, and resolutely eliminate bottlenecks that hinder the construction of a unified national market.

The plenary session proposed to accelerate the construction of a high-level socialist market economy system and enhance the driving force for high-quality development. Adhere to and improve the socialist basic economic system, better leverage the driving role of economic system reform, improve the macroeconomic governance system, and ensure stable and far-reaching high-quality development. To fully stimulate the vitality of various business entities, accelerate the improvement of the market-oriented allocation system and mechanism of factors, and enhance the efficiency of macroeconomic governance.

The plenary session proposed to expand high-level opening up to the outside world and create a new situation of win-win cooperation. Steadily expanding institutional openness, maintaining the multilateral trading system, expanding international circulation, promoting reform and development through openness, and sharing opportunities and common development with countries around the world. We should actively expand independent opening up, promote innovative trade development, expand space for two-way investment cooperation, and jointly build the "the Belt and Road" with high quality.

The plenary session proposed to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Persist in making the resolution of the "three rural issues" a top priority for the entire Party's work, promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas, continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, promote the basic modern living conditions in rural areas, and accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country. To enhance the comprehensive production capacity and quality efficiency of agriculture, promote the construction of livable, business friendly, and beautiful rural areas, and improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit agriculture, and enrich agriculture.

The plenary session proposed to optimize the regional economic layout and promote coordinated regional development. Give full play to the synergistic effects of regional coordinated development strategy, regional major strategy, main functional zone strategy, and new urbanization strategy, optimize the layout of major productive forces, leverage the role of key regions as growth poles, and build a regional economic layout and national spatial system with complementary advantages and high-quality development. To enhance the coordination of regional development, promote regional linkage development, optimize the spatial development pattern of the country, deepen the people-oriented new urbanization, and strengthen the protection of marine development and utilization.

The plenary session proposed to stimulate the innovation and creativity of the entire national culture, and to promote the prosperous development of socialist culture. Adhere to the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field, root in the profound and extensive Chinese civilization, follow the trend of information technology development, develop a new era of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics that has strong ideological guidance, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence, and solidly promote the construction of a cultural power. To promote and practice the core socialist values, vigorously promote cultural undertakings, accelerate the development of cultural industries, and enhance the influence and dissemination of Chinese civilization.

The plenary session proposed to increase efforts to ensure and improve people's livelihoods, and solidly promote common prosperity for all people. Adhere to doing our best and acting within our capabilities, strengthen the construction of inclusive, fundamental, and bottom-up livelihood, solve the urgent and difficult problems of the people, smooth social mobility channels, and improve the quality of people's lives. To promote high-quality and full employment, improve the income distribution system, provide satisfactory education for the people, improve the social security system, promote high-quality development of the real estate industry, accelerate the construction of a healthy China, promote high-quality population development, and steadily promote equalization of basic public services.

The plenary session proposed to accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development and build a beautiful China. Firmly establish and practice the concept that green mountains and clear waters are as valuable as mountains of gold and silver. Taking carbon peak and carbon neutrality as the driving force, we will work together to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, build a solid ecological security barrier, and enhance the momentum of green development. We must continue to deepen the fight against pollution and optimize the ecosystem, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, actively and steadily promote and achieve carbon peak, and accelerate the formation of a green production and lifestyle.

The plenary session proposed to promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, and build a higher level of peaceful China. We will firmly implement the overall national security concept, take the path of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics, and ensure that society is vibrant and orderly. We need to improve the national security system, strengthen the construction of national security capabilities in key areas, enhance the level of public security governance, and improve the social governance system.

The plenum proposed to achieve the 100-year goal of army building as scheduled and promote the modernization of national defense and the army with high quality. Implement Xi Jinping's thinking on strengthening the army, implement the military strategy for the new era, adhere to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army, implement the military commission chairman responsibility system, and promote political army building, reform and strengthening the army in accordance with the new "three-step" strategy of national defense and military modernization. Strengthen the army, strengthen the army with science and technology, strengthen the army with talents, and govern the army according to law. Accelerate the integration and development of mechanization and intelligence. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of advanced combat effectiveness, promote the modernization of military governance, and consolidate and improve the integrated national strategic system and capabilities.

The plenary session emphasized that the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country must unite and strive to achieve the "15th Five Year Plan". We will continue to lead the social revolution with the Party's self revolution, persevere in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, strengthen the Party's political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization, and social appeal, improve the Party's ability and level of leadership in economic and social development, and pool tremendous power to promote Chinese path to modernization. We should uphold and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee of the Party, promote socialist democracy and the rule of law, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole society to participate in Chinese path to modernization. Promote the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, advance peaceful development of cross-strait relations, advance the great cause of national reunification, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The plenary session pointed out that studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the entire Party and the country in the current and future periods. We should organize the study, preaching, and promotion of the spirit of the plenary session through various means, so that the whole party and society can understand the spirit of the plenary session. We must effectively implement the spirit of the plenary session, steadfastly promote high-quality development, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, take solid steps towards common prosperity for all people, better coordinate development and security, coordinate economic construction and various fields of work, and lay a solid foundation for the basic realization of socialist modernization.

The plenary session emphasized that governing the country must first govern the Party, and only when the Party is strong can the country be strong. The more effective the governance of the Party, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development. We must persist in promoting comprehensive strict governance of the Party with the tenacity and persistence that will always be on the road, resolutely implement the Party's self revolutionary requirements, promote the normalization and long-term development of the Party's work style, resolutely carry out the anti-corruption struggle, and provide strong guarantees for achieving the economic and social development goals during the 15th Five Year Plan period.

The plenary session analyzed the current situation and tasks, emphasizing the resolute achievement of the annual economic and social development goals. We must continue to accurately implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, focus on stabilizing employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, stabilize the economic fundamentals, and consolidate and expand the positive momentum of economic recovery. Macro policies should continue to be strengthened and timely intensified, implement enterprise assistance policies well, deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, firmly grasp the bottom line of grassroots "three guarantees", and actively and steadily resolve local government debt risks.

The plenary session pointed out that we must effectively ensure people's livelihood, tap into potential through multiple channels, strengthen job stability and employment promotion work, promote stable employment for key groups, increase efforts to rectify wage arrears, strengthen basic public services, and solve the urgent and difficult problems of the people. Efforts should be made to effectively carry out post disaster recovery and reconstruction, resettlement of affected people, and living security, ensuring that affected people have a warm winter.

The plenary session emphasized the need to do a good job in safety production and maintain stability, tighten the responsibility for safety production, strictly implement various regulatory systems, and resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of major accidents. Strengthen the supervision of the entire food and drug safety chain. Thoroughly investigate and resolve conflicts and disputes, strengthen overall social security prevention and control, and crack down on various illegal and criminal activities in accordance with the law. Strengthen public opinion guidance and effectively prevent and resolve ideological risks.

The plenary session decided to add Zhang Shengmin as the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.

The plenary session, in accordance with the provisions of the Party Constitution, decided to appoint Yu Huiwen, Ma Hancheng, Wang Jian, Wang Xi, Wang Yonghong, Wang Tingkai, Wang Xinwei, Wei Tao, Deng Yiwu, Deng Xiuming, and Lu Hong as alternate members of the Central Committee.

the plenum examined and adopted the report of the cpc central discipline inspection commission on the serious violation of discipline and law by tang renjian, jin xiangjun, li shisong, yang fasen, and zhu zhisong, and the report of the cpc central military commission on the serious violation of discipline and law by he weidong, miao hua, he hongjun, wang xiubin, lin xiangyang, qin shutong, yuan huazhi, wang chunning, and zhang fengzhong, confirming the sanctions previously imposed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to expel He Weidong, Miao Hua, Tang Renjian, Jin Xiangjun, He Hongjun, Wang Xiubin, Lin Xiangyang, Qin Shutong, Yuan Huazhi, Wang Chunning, Li Shisong, Yang Fasen, Zhu Zhisong, and Zhang Fengzhong from the party.

The plenary session called on the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, work together for the basic realization of socialist modernization, and continue to create a Chinese-style modernization to comprehensively promote the construction of a powerful country and national rejuvenation A new situation in the great cause.

Information source: Xinhua News Agency