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15th Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ121308323 ↗
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The 15th Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, formally the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was elected by the 1st plenary session of the 15th Central Committee in 1997, in the aftermath of the 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It was preceded by the CCP's 14th Politburo Standing Committee and was succeeded by the 16th in 2002.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 15th, Politburo and Standing can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “15th Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.