China’s ruling Communist Party will hold a plenary session of its Central Committee in Beijing in October to discuss party self-governance, state-run Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing a Politburo meeting.

The party conclave will bring together more than 300 full and alternate members of its current Central Committee — the largest of the party’s top decision-making bodies.

The meeting, the fifth since the current Central Committee was formed in 2022, will “study several major issues concerning the sustained advancement of full and rigorous party self-governance,” Xinhua said.

Under a years-long anti-corruption campaign initiated by President Xi Jinping, millions of people within China’s vast bureaucracy have been investigated. Hundreds of senior officials and top generals have been removed from their posts.

Xi also formally introduced an internal party discipline campaign in 2014, two years after his ascension to power.

The party’s self-governance drive “faces many new situations and new challenges” due to changes to the international and national environments and within the party, Xinhua cited the Politburo as saying.

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