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China has concluded its fifth plenum with a renewed push to institutionalise party discipline, promote the military anti‑graft chief Zhang Shengmin to the Politburo and signal a tougher crackdown on passive, self‑protecting officials known as "lao hao ren." The session has revealed an unprecedented number of empty Central Committee seats and set the agenda ahead of the 2027 party congress.