Central Committee, leaders called top authorities by key document

Safeguarding the authority of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and its unified and centralized leadership is "the supreme political principle and the fundamental political rule for the whole Party", an official statement released on Tuesday said.

The statement was issued after a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which was presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

At the conference, members of the Political Bureau reviewed a report about the comprehensive situation of the works of Party organizations in the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate as well as the works of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat.