Improving governance for a better future

The upcoming Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee is expected to put forward a new strategic plan for modernizing the national governance system and governance capability, a process which began with the launch of institutional reform of the Party and government in March 2018.

First, this round of institutional reform of the Party and government is a systemic and in-depth reform based on comprehensively deepening reform since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012, the Party Central Committee has actively promoted reform in various fields. For instance, in 2012 the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee issued an eight-point regulation on improving Party and government conduct, which drastically changed Party members' working style and promoted healthy and honest political, cultural and social morality.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in 2014 raised the strategic layout of the "four comprehensives" to a higher level, while the government accelerated its own reform including streamlining and delegating power to the lower levels.