China’s Fifth Plenum Set to Redefine the Party’s Anti‑Corruption Campaign

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. In the second part of this series, William Zheng and Alcott Wei examine how the fight against corruption is shaping the party’s future.

When China’s political elites gather for a key conclave in Beijing later this month, the increasingly empty auditorium will speak loudly to the event’s theme – the ruling Communist Party’s strict self-discipline and its never‑ending fight against corruption.

The four‑day closed‑door meeting, scheduled about a year before the 21st National Party Congress in late 2027, is poised to formalise one of the most extensive turnovers of senior party, state and military personnel in modern Chinese political history.

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