Epilogue The Communist Party of China and the Future of China: In Preparation for the 17th National Congress of the CPC

The Communist Party of China and the Future of China: In Preparation for the 17th National Congress of the CPC The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(hereafter CPC) has long been anticipated as a bellwether of the CPC in the 21st century.This chapter summarizes what the Congress has achieved and examines the challenges facing the country's new leaders based on the analysis in the preceding pages.It then attempts to forecast how the CPC will transform itself in the runup to the 17th National Congress and how those changes will affect Japan. Accomplishments of the 16th National Congress of the CPCThe 16th National Congress was of interest for two primary reasons.First, to what extent would there be a generational changing of the leadership?And, second, what new directions would the Party stake out on the ideological and policy fronts to deal with the rapidly changing political and economic situation?What, then, did the Congress actually achieve in these regards? Drastic Regeneration of Leadership New Guiding Principle and Incorporation of the Rising ClassesTurning now to the second point, the thought of the "Three Represents" espoused