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Table 2:
Publicized Meetings of the 16th & 17th Central Committee Politburos
16th CC Politburo
Date Business Notes
16 November 2002
(Saturday)
2 December 2002
(Monday)
26 December 2002
(Thursday)
28 January 2003
(Tuesday)
21 February 2003
(Friday)
28 March 2003
(Friday)
28 April 2003
(Monday)
Launched campaign to study Jiang
Zemin’s Central Committee work report
to the 16th Party Congress; deliberated
division of Politburo labor.
Discussed economic situation in
preparation for annual national conference
on 2003 economic work; adopted work
rules for 16th Politburo.
Agriculture and rural issues in preparation
for annual national conference on 2003
rural work.
Discussed Central Discipline Inspection
Commission report on 2003 work in
combating corruption.
Set date for 16th Central Committee’s
second plenum; discussed “Opinion on
Deepening Administrative and
Institutional Reform”; discussed slate of
state leaders to be adopted and State
Council work report to be approved at
second plenum and presented to the 10th
National People’s Congress.
Discussed and approved for
implementation a document on news
reporting on leadership meetings and
activities and regulations on foreign travel
by Politburo members.
Launched new campaign to study the
“three represents”; discussed balancing
priority of economic work and defeating
SARS.
(Source: Xinhua, 16 November 2002.)
First in the series of publicized 16 th CC
Politburo meetings; resumed November
1987–August 1989 practice of reporting
meetings on contemporaneous basis.
(Source: Xinhua, 2 December 2002.)
(Source: Xinhua, 26 December 2002.)
(Source: Xinhua, 28 January 2003.)
(Source: Xinhua, 21 February 2003.)
(Source: Xinhua, 28 March 2003.)
(Source: Xinhua, 28 April 2003.)