[Jun 30, 2025] Something worth paying attention to in China.

 中共中央政治局召开会议

审议《党中央决策议事协调机构工作条例》
中共中央总书记习近平主持会议

新华社北京6月30日电 中共中央政治局6月30日召开会议，审议《党中央决策议事协调机构工作条例》。中共中央总书记习近平主持会议。

会议指出，设立党中央决策议事协调机构，是健全党中央对重大工作集中统一领导、推动重大任务落实的重要制度安排。制定出台《党中央决策议事协调机构工作条例》，进一步规范党中央决策议事协调机构的设立、职责和运行，对于发挥好对重大工作的顶层设计、统筹协调、整体推进、督促落实职能作用，具有重要意义。

会议强调，党中央决策议事协调机构要准确把握职责定位，坚持谋大事、议大事、抓大事，对重大工作实施更为有效的统领和协调，做到统筹不代替、到位不越位。要深入调查研究，提升决策议事质效，提出切合实际、行之有效的政策举措。要力戒形式主义、官僚主义，工作务求实效。

会议还研究了其他事项。

English Translation

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee Convenes a Meeting

Deliberation of the "Regulations on the Work of the Party Central Committee’s Decision-Making, Deliberation, and Coordination Bodies"

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Presided Over the Meeting

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 30 — The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee convened a meeting on June 30 to deliberate the "Regulations on the Work of the Party Central Committee’s Decision-Making, Deliberation, and Coordination Bodies." Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

The meeting pointed out that the establishment of the Party Central Committee’s decision-making, deliberation, and coordination bodies is an important institutional arrangement for strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee over major work and for promoting the implementation of major tasks. The formulation and promulgation of the "Regulations on the Work of the Party Central Committee’s Decision-Making, Deliberation, and Coordination Bodies" further standardizes the establishment, responsibilities, and operations of these bodies. This is of great significance for ensuring the top-level design, overall coordination, comprehensive advancement, and supervision of the implementation of major work.

The meeting emphasized that the Party Central Committee’s decision-making, deliberation, and coordination bodies must accurately understand their responsibilities and positioning, focus on major issues, discuss major matters, and address major tasks. They should provide more effective overall leadership and coordination for major work, ensuring coordination without substitution and presence without overstepping. In-depth investigation and research should be conducted to improve the quality and effectiveness of decision-making and deliberation, and to propose practical and effective policy measures. Formalism and bureaucratism must be firmly opposed, and work should be results-oriented.

The meeting also discussed other matters.

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The most notable underlying message is the further institutionalization of the Party Central Committee’s decision-making mechanisms, which are now firmly under President Xi Jinping’s control. This represents a significant consolidation of political power and could trigger internal competition within the party’s elite.

In one possible scenario, President Xi could eventually relinquish some authority, leading to a shift in China’s political direction. Alternatively, internal tensions could escalate, potentially resulting in intervention by military or security forces in Beijing, with the risk of broader national instability. In the most destabilizing scenario, the leadership might initiate external conflict—such as an escalation over Taiwan—to divert attention from domestic challenges