China’s ruling Communist Party has adopted a new resolution tightening internal discipline and extending its anti-corruption campaign, with a heavy emphasis on members’ loyalty to the party.
The document was discussed at a meeting of the party leadership, Hiru News reported on Monday, citing foreign media.
What the resolution sets out
The resolution calls for building loyalty among members and for officials’ commitment to party policy to be measured against their conduct in office, personal behaviour and family values — extending assessment beyond professional performance into private life.
It acknowledges existing ideological and organisational problems within the party, and sets out to address them by carrying forward an anti-corruption campaign that the report says has already affected millions of people across the state apparatus.
Supervision of officials is to be strengthened, including disclosure of personal information and strict scrutiny of family members’ financial affairs. The campaign is also to target sophisticated corruption carried out through the misuse of technology and financial systems.
While promoting collective leadership, the document further consolidates President Xi Jinping’s authority, calling on members to give him full support “in thought as well as in action”. Xi is reported to have stressed that strict self-governance is essential to protecting the party’s sovereignty and securing its survival for future generations.
The timing
The report notes the step comes close to a leadership transition at which Xi is expected to take a further five-year term.
Provenance — read with care
This article carries an unusually heavy attribution caveat.
Hiru News presents the story as a relay and attributes it only to “foreign media” (විදෙස් මාධ්ය), without naming the originating outlet. That means the chain of reporting cannot be checked from the filing itself.
This desk searched for a verified international newsroom’s own report on the resolution and could not reach one inside the freshness window that governs our sourcing. Al Jazeera and CNN both covered the opening of the Communist Party plenum in late October — several days before this resolution was reported — but that is coverage of a different stage of the same process, not of the document described here, and both fall outside our 72-hour source window.
Accordingly:
- Every claim above is as Hiru reports it, not as independently verified by LankaNewz.
- The filing does not name the meeting that adopted the resolution, give its date, state how many officials attended, or quote the document directly.
- It does not give the resolution’s formal title, or say when or whether the full text will be published.
This report rests on a single verified source relaying unnamed foreign reporting. It will be updated if a verified international newsroom’s own filing becomes available.