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From left Wang Gang, moderator; Hu Heping, Executive Vice Minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee; Zhang Fuhai, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC and Vice Chairman of the National Commission of Supervision; Huang Jianfa, Executive Vice Minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee; Tang Fangyu, Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee; Xie Chuntao, Executive Vice President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) hold a press conference a day after the Communist Party Central Committee's fifth plenum close in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 30, 2026.
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