Brief chronology

1. 1st Plenary Session
   • Date: September 19, 1997
   • Location: Beijing
     Beijing
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   • Significance: Jiang Zemin
     Jiang Zemin
     Jiang Zemin is a former Chinese politician, who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2005...
     
      was appointed CPC General Secretary
     General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
     The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , officially General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China, a standing member of the Politburo and head of the Secretariat...
     
      and Chairman of the Central Military Commission
     Chairman of the Central Military Commission
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     . A 24-members Politburo
     Politburo of the Communist Party of China
     The Central Politburo of the Communist Party of China or Political bureau of the CPC Central Committee , formerly as Central Bureau before 1927, is a group of 24 people who oversee the Communist Party of China...
     
     , a 7-members Politburo Standing Committee
     Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
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      and a 7-members Secretariat were elected.
2. 2nd Plenary Session
   • Date: February 25–26, 1998
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: The meeting approved lists of nominees for top posts of the 9th National People's Congress
     9th National People's Congress
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      and the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferece
     Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
     The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference [], shortened as 人民政协, Rénmín Zhèngxié, i.e. "People's PCC"; or just 政协, Zhèngxié, i.e. "The PCC"), abbreviated CPPCC, is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China...
     
      and a proposal for reforming the State Council
     State Council of the People's Republic of China
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     .
3. 3rd Plenary Session
   • Date: October 12–14, 1998
   • Location: Beijing
   • 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.
4. 4th Plenary Session
   • Date: September 19–22, 1999
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: The reform of the State-owned enterprises was launched aiming at establishing a "modern enterprise system". Hu Jintao
     Hu Jintao
     Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...
     
      was appointed vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission.
5. 5th Plenary Session
   • Date: October 9–11, 2000
   • Location: Beijing
   • Significance: Zhu Rongji
     Zhu Rongji
     Zhū Róngjī is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then the fifth Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003.A tough administrator, his time in office saw the...
     
      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
     World Trade Organization
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      and urged the Party to apply Jiang Zemin's Three Represents
     Three Represents
     The Three Represents is a socio-political ideology credited to General Secretary Jiang Zemin which became a guiding ideology of the Communist Party of China at its Sixteenth Party Congress in 2002....
     
     , exposed by the Chinese President in February of the same year.
6. 6th Plenary Session
   • Date: September 24–26, 2001
   • Location: Beijing
   • 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 Strenghten and Improve the Party's Work Style based on the Three Represents, allowing capitalists to join the Party.
7. 7th Plenary Session
   • Date: November 3–5, 2002
   • Location: Beijing
   • 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".

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