It formally succeeded the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and preceded the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

To be elected to the Central Committee, a candidate must be a party member for at least five years.

It was also responsible for approving the members of the Secretariat, 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and its Standing Committee.

The fourth plenary session issued a decision on modernizing governance.

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity, the Central Committee member- and alternate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership, Central Military Commission members, Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection membership, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, offices an individual held, retirement, if the individual in question is military personnel, female, has been expelled, is currently under investigation or has retired: