The 15th Central Committee of the

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was in session from 1997 to 2002. The 14th Central Committee preceded it. It was followed by the

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. This was the first Central Committee that current Chinese

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was elected to, as an alternative member. It elected the 15th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in 1997. Plenary sessions were held by the

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Members

:''In stroke order of surnames:''

Brief chronology

#''1st Plenary Session'' #*Date: September 19, 1997 #*Location:

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#*Significance:

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was re-appointed

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and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. A 24-members

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, a 7-members

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and a 7-members

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were elected. #''2nd Plenary Session'' #*Date: February 25–26, 1998 #*Location: Beijing #*Significance: The meeting approved lists of nominees for top posts of the

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and the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a proposal for reforming the State Council. #''3rd Plenary Session'' #*Date: October 12–14, 1998 #*Location: Beijing #*Significance: The meeting reviewed the previous 20 years of economic reform and set the goal to establish new rural towns according to

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by 2010. #''4th Plenary Session'' #*Date: September 19–22, 1999 #*Location: Beijing #*Significance: The reform of the State-owned enterprises was launched aiming at establishing a ''"modern enterprise system"''.

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was appointed vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission. #''5th Plenary Session'' #*Date: October 9–11, 2000 #*Location: Beijing #*Significance: Premier Zhu Rongji delivered a report on the guidelines for 10th Five-Year Plan, proclaiming modernization, opening up and technological progress as its basic goals. The meeting also decided upon China's accession to the

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and urged the Party to apply Jiang Zemin's

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, exposed by the Party General Secretary in February of the same year. #''6th Plenary Session'' #*Date: September 24–26, 2001 #*Location: Beijing #*Significance: The meeting celebrated the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the CCP, with General Secretary Jiang Zeming speaking about it, and adopted a ''Decision of the CCP Central Committee to Strengthen and Improve the Party's Work Style'' based on the Three Represents, allowing capitalists to join the Party. #''7th Plenary Session'' #*Date: November 3–5, 2002 #*Location: Beijing #*Significance: Preparations for the Party's 16th National Congress were made. The meeting proclaimed Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Three Represents as the guideline for China ''"in the new century and new stage of reform and opening up and socialist modernization"''.

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