Updated
Updated · South China Morning Post · Oct 30
CPC Central Committee Adopts Self-Governance Decision, Targeting 'Unwritten Rules' After 4-Day Plenum
Updated
Updated · South China Morning Post · Oct 30

CPC Central Committee Adopts Self-Governance Decision, Targeting 'Unwritten Rules' After 4-Day Plenum

1 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Oct 30

Summary

  • A four-day CPC plenum ended with the adoption of a decision on “several major issues” in persevering with full and rigorous Party self-governance.
  • Senior officials cast the move as a fresh anti-corruption push aimed at eliminating “unwritten rules” — informal practices they say weaken formal Party rules.
  • The decision signals the leadership wants discipline efforts to reach beyond overt graft and into entrenched internal norms that shape how power is exercised.

Insights

Is Beijing closing loopholes in Party discipline, or widening a system where almost any informal practice can be punished?
After record purges and millions disciplined, why do hidden rules still thrive inside China’s governing system?