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Central Committee

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noun

  1. (in Communist parties) the body responsible for party policy between meetings of the party congress: in practice, it is in charge of day-to-day operations of the party bureaucracy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But filter the data set for documents that mention Xi, the Party Congress, or the Central Committee Plenum, and the share climbs to roughly one in four.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

A populist, Howell founded one of the first Tea Party groups in the state and is a member of the Santa Clara County Republican Central Committee.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

By that standard, military officers across China should be highly encouraged following Saturday’s announcement that the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party had opened an investigation of two senior military officials.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

In October, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party unveiled a five-year road map that suggested it recognized the need to spur consumption—a notable shift.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

It was published by the Central Committee of the Komsomol in 1939, and anybody who couldn’t get hold of the physical book could read it as a serial through the hugely popular program Newspaper Novels.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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