Xi will overturn Party rules

Significance

It will focus on 'party discipline' and promises consolidation of President Xi Jinping's approach to politics. It will also set the stage for next year's Party Congress, where Xi intends to install a new leadership generation under his patronage.

Impacts

• Xi's trademark anti-corruption campaign will be enshrined as standard operating procedure.
• Governance will become more centralised, with more direct supervision by the party's central institutions and less local discretion.
• Formal procedures to select the next Central Committee and Politburo will begin, taking competition for places to a new level.