BEIJING, Sep. 22 -- While experts on the podium make engaging remarks, the audience, of different colors and varied languages, listen attentively and raise hands for questions from time to time. The topic they are discussing is the main content and outcome of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee concluded last week.
For those journalists that are used to various press briefings, they will instantly see the difference in this setting: the audience is composed entirely of foreign diplomats in Beijing. At the briefing session for foreign diplomats in Beijing held by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, they are having interactions with experts from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
Diplomats that are accustomed to being face to face with journalists are now serious question raisers. They are seeking answers to questions related to the party building efforts of the CPC such as grassroots democracy, property declaration of officials and the supervision of power. While experts answer their questions, they busily take note.
With highly interactive questions and answers, the briefing session, which was originally planned for 60 minutes, goes on for over 100 minutes.
As the chairperson is about to announce the end of the briefing, a diplomat from Kuwait raises his hand. After getting approval, he says the following words sincerely: First of all I would like to thank the International Department of the CPC Central Committee for hosting this briefing session and the two experts for their in-depth reading of the Fourth Plenary Session. I am very glad to have been invited to this informative briefing through which I have gained much more background information about the Plenary. It is also a platform for us diplomats to share our views. We hope the practice will continue and there will be a briefing after every important meeting of the CPC.
His words receive warm applause. The same feeling is also expressed in other ways. Ambassador João Manuel Bernardo of the Republic of Angola tells journalist of News of the Communist Party of China that he fully agrees with the Kuwait diplomat. He hopes there will be more briefings to follow on important events of the CPC so that they will have a better grasp of the Party.
Some diplomats even surround officials of the International Department to express their wish for more of such briefings in the future. A Jordanian diplomat says that having worked in China for five years, he deeply feels that the ruling experiences of the CPC provide references for others and that he pays close attention to important information of the Party. The briefing itself demonstrates the confidence and openness of the Party.
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Source: News of the Communist Party of China
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