CHINA'S XI OPENS COMMUNIST PARTY PLENUM, AIMS FOR FIRM GOVERNANCE MEASURES

China's Communist Party ​began a meeting of senior cadres on Monday aimed at tightening discipline and pressing officials to implement Beijing's orders, ‌paving the way for a leadership reshuffle next year expected to extend President Xi Jinping's rule for another five years.

Xi briefed the party's four-day Central Committee meeting on a draft document centred on "full and rigorous party self-governance" that state news agency Xinhua said addressed the challenges the party faced, including ​growing its governing capacity, as well as guarding against complacency and combating corruption, the president's signature campaign.

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