CPC Central Committee Issues Notice Arranging the Election of Delegates to the 21st Party Congress

CCTV.com reports (Xinwen Lianbo): Recently, the CPC Central Committee issued the Notice on the Election of Delegates to the 21st Party Congress, making comprehensive arrangements for the election. The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to make specific arrangements.

There will be a total of 2,360 delegates to the 21st Party Congress, elected by 38 electoral units nationwide. To carry out the election well, it is necessary to fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, take the Party Constitution as the fundamental basis, uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, particularly the centralized, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, put political standards first, strictly enforce eligibility standards and conditions, ensure rigorous electoral procedures and strict electoral discipline, and ensure that the elected delegates to the 21st Party Congress are of excellent caliber, have an appropriate composition, come from a broad range of backgrounds and enjoy Party members' support.

The CPC Central Committee made clear that delegates to the 21st Party Congress should be outstanding Communist Party members. Candidates must undergo rigorous political vetting, with thorough and substantive assessments of their political qualities and stronger scrutiny of their Party character; anyone who fails to meet political requirements must be disqualified outright. Candidates' integrity and conduct must be strictly vetted to resolutely prevent nominations or elections of people with outstanding problems. The composition of delegates must be appropriately determined, ensuring the proportion of delegates from the front lines of production and work and emphasizing the recommendation of exemplary Party members among workers, farmers and professional and technical personnel as delegate candidates. Women and ethnic minority Party members should account for a certain proportion of delegates. There should be delegates from all fronts and all industries.

The CPC Central Committee requires that delegates to the 21st Party Congress be elected through a process that proceeds from the bottom up, combines input from higher and lower levels, involves repeated deliberation and selects candidates level by level. Party organizations at all levels must effectively strengthen leadership, make meticulous arrangements and carry out the election work solidly. They must implement the requirement to persistently advance full and rigorous Party self-governance, making the process of electing delegates a process of thoroughly studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, particularly Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. They must mobilize Party members and officials to unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, remain true to their original aspiration and keep their mission firmly in mind, work with one heart and strive forward together toward basically achieving socialist modernization, and continually break new ground in comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.

The election of delegates to the 21st Party Congress begins now and will conclude before the end of June 2027.