Discipline Becomes Focus of CPC Plenum as Meeting Opens in Beijing

(Beijing) — The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has convened a four-day plenary session aimed at strengthening intraparty discipline, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

At the closed-door meeting that began Monday in Beijing, the committee — which includes more than 200 full members and about 170 alternative members — will induct five alternates as full members. Four seats became vacant due to members' indictments on corruption charges, and one vacancy was created when a member died.