<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Standard Mandarin </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Hanyu Pinyin </Th> <Td> Shíjiǔ Dà </Td> </Tr> <P> The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (commonly referred to as Shíjiǔ Dà; Chinese: 十 九 大) was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, between 18 and 24 October 2017 . 2,280 delegates represented the party's estimated 89 million members . Preparations for the 19th National Congress began in 2016 and ended with a plenary session of the Central Committee a few days prior to the Congress . In 2016, local and provincial party organizations began electing delegates to the congress as well as receiving and amending party documents . </P> <P> During the congress, a new guiding ideology, labelled Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, was written into the party's constitution . It marked the first time since Mao Zedong Thought that a living party leader has enshrined into the party constitution an ideology named after himself . The Congress also emphasized strengthening socialism with Chinese characteristics, party - building, and socialist rule of law, and setting concrete timelines for achieving development goals, such as building a moderately prosperous society and achieving "socialist modernization ." It was also noted for rallying China to play a more substantial role internationally . </P>

The nineteenth national congress of the communist party of china