[3] In May 2022, the CCP General Office issued a set of regulations warning retired members not to make any ‘negative’ political comments or discussion of the party's policies in the run-up to the 20th National Congress and that violations of the disciplinary rules will be ‘dealt with seriously’.

[5] In September, unsubstantiated rumors of a coup spread throughout social media, but were quashed after Xi Jinping appeared days later.

[7] On 13 October, three days prior to the opening of the CCP National Congress, the Beijing Sitong Bridge protest took place.

The meeting decided to submit draft resolutions on the 19th Central Committee's and 19th CCDI's reports as well as the amendment to the CCP Constitution.

[29] At the closing ceremony on 22 October, Hu Jintao, the former General Secretary of the CCP and President, who had been sitting next to Xi, was pulled from his seat and escorted out of the hall by two men in suits and with name badges.

[39] Academics Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung write that the ban on images and reporting of the incident suggests that Xi did not intend to humiliate Hu.

[41] The newly elected members of the 20th Politburo Standing Committee in addition to Xi were, in their orders of precedence:[42] The new PSC was filled almost completely with people close to Xi, with four out of the seven members of the previous PSC including Premier Li Keqiang and CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang stepping down.

[43] The only remaining members of the previous PSC except Xi were Zhao Leji and Wang Huning, though their ranking and positions changed.

[44] Reuters remarked that the retirement of Wang Yang and Li Keqiang, as well as the demotion of vice premier Hu Chunhua from the Politburo meant the wipeout of Tuanpai,[45] while Willy Wo-Lap Lam wrote that there were no representatives from the Tuanpai or the Shanghai clique, leading to a total dominance of Xi's own faction.

Additions included opposition to Taiwan independence,[47][48] developing a "fighting spirit" and strengthening fighting ability, as well as additions of goals related to Xi, including gradually achieving common prosperity, promoting Chinese-style modernization and developing a "broader, fuller and more robust" whole-process people's democracy.

[49][47] The Congress emphasized that the CCP's economic agenda should focus on quality of growth, rather than solely quantity, consistent with principles of security and common prosperity.

[51]: 85 Stocks related to Chinese corporations suffered major losses on 24 October, with the Hang Seng Index falling 6%, its worst daily decline since the 2008 financial crisis.