BEIJING -- The Seventh Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held from Oct. 9 to 12 in Beijing.

It was decided at the plenum that the 17th CPC National Congress be convened from Oct. 15 in Beijing, according to a communique of the plenum issued on Friday.

A total of 190 members and 152 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee attended the four-day plenum, with members of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and leading officials of relevant departments attending as non-voting members.

The plenum was presided over by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered an important speech.

Hu, entrusted by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made a work report which was discussed and approved at the plenum.

The plenum also discussed and approved a report, which will be presented by the 16th CPC Central Committee to the 17th Party Congress, as well as an amendment to the Constitution of the CPC.

Both documents will be submitted to the 17th Party Congress for discussions, the plenum decided.

Hu made an explanation to the plenum on the draft report, and Wu Bangguo, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made an explanation on the draft amendment to the CPC Constitution.

The plenum made a positive assessment on the work of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee since the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee held last October, according to the communique.

It held that guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", the Political Bureau had implemented the spirits of previous six plenums of the 16th CPC Central Committee and the 16th Party Congress and deeply carried out "the scientific concept of development".