15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Members

Brief chronology

1. 1st Plenary Session
2. Date: September 19, 1997
3. Location: Beijing
4. Significance: Jiang Zemin was appointed CPC General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. A 24-members Politburo, a 7-members Politburo Standing Committee and a 7-members Secretariat were elected.
5. 2nd Plenary Session
6. Date: February 25–26, 1998
7. Location: Beijing
8. Significance: The meeting approved lists of nominees for top posts of the 9th National People's Congress and the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a proposal for reforming the State Council.
9. 3rd Plenary Session
10. Date: October 12–14, 1998
11. Location: Beijing
12. Significance: The meeting reviewed the previous 20 years of economic reform and set the goal to establish new rural towns according to socialism with Chinese characteristics by 2010.
13. 4th Plenary Session
14. Date: September 19–22, 1999
15. Location: Beijing
16. Significance: The reform of the State-owned enterprises was launched aiming at establishing a "modern enterprise system". Hu Jintao was appointed vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission.
17. 5th Plenary Session
18. Date: October 9–11, 2000
19. Location: Beijing
20. Significance: Zhu Rongji delivered a report on the guidelines for 10th Five-Year Plan, proclaiming modernization, opening up and technological progress as its basic goals. The meeting also decided upon China's accession to the World Trade Organization and urged the Party to apply Jiang Zemin's Three Represents, exposed by the Chinese President in February of the same year.
21. 6th Plenary Session
22. Date: September 24–26, 2001
23. Location: Beijing
24. Significance: The meeting celebrated the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the CPC, with Jiang Zeming speaking about it, and adopted a Decision of the CPC Central Committee to Strengthen and Improve the Party's Work Style based on the Three Represents, allowing capitalists to join the Party.
25. 7th Plenary Session
26. Date: November 3–5, 2002
27. Location: Beijing
28. Significance: Preparations for the Party's 16th National Congress were made. The meeting proclaimed Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Three Represents as the guideline for China "in the new century and new stage of reform and opening up and socialist modernization".