Beijing: China’s President XI Jinping, the leader of the most populous country, heads the important plenary from the ruling party tops next week who will set a tone for his offer for long-term rules.
From Monday to Thursday, around 400 members of the Commitist Committee of the Communist Party gathered in Beijing behind closed doors.
The only meeting like that this year paved the way to the next 20th autumn party congress – where XI is widely expected to be given the third term in the office, strengthening its position as the strongest Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
In the plenary next week, the top figures will debate the main resolution that celebrates the main achievement of the party in the 100 years of its existence, according to the Xinhua state news agency.
Analyst said the resolution, only the third of its kind in party history, would help XI support his grip with strength by establishing his vision for China, ahead of the 2022 party congress which was important.
Like all leadership meetings for Beijing’s secret, this event will be held behind closed doors, and most of the main decisions are made well in advance.
China’s political meeting is all very choreographed and does not have differences of opinion for the official pathway very rarely.
Content has not been fully published but the resolution time is key – as with two previous resolutions.
The first, passed below MAO in 1945, helped him strengthen his authority for the Communist Party four years before it seized power.
The second, adopted under Deng Xiaoping in 1981, saw the regime adopting economic reform and recognized the “error” of the way Mao.
In contrast to the previous two, the resolution of XI would not mark a break with the past, Harvard Saich University Anthony told AFP.
“Instead, this is intended to show that XI is a natural heir of a process since the establishment of a party that meets his requirements to lead in ‘new era’,” said Saich, a Chinese political expert.
“The aim is to consolidate XI as a natural heir from ‘noble history’ from the CCP,” he added, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.
Saich also said the resolution tended to mark the steps back from the text of Deng because it would be less critical of the era of Mao from 1949 to 1976.
Under the grip of Mao, tens of millions of hungers to force the country to commune.
In the decade before his death, he released the cultural revolution, the era of violence that made national psychic scars.
Under Deng, the party sees an offer to avoid repetition of Mao’s personality cult – if only to ensure the sustainability of the rules.
According to the Political Bachelor of Wu Qiang, who lost his job as a lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing for his research, the approval of the resolution means “that the Jinping XI Authority is undeniable”.
Wu also believes that the plenum will tighten the Chinese line back towards a more “controlled, planned” economy – as seen in the sustainable encouragement of XI to regulate the country’s Mammoth company in the sectors of real estate.
Taiwan’s democratic island question – who saw himself sovereign but claimed to be Beijing as his own territory – also can be on the meeting agenda.
Apart from next week’s meeting, the undisputed XI authorities were not questioned, according to Carl Minzner, a senior for Chinese studies at the Washington-Based Council on foreign relations.
“The core problem is: How high might he go?” He told AFP.
“The tone and contents of the resolution are likely to give advice about how XI tries to be described,” he said.
“As the same as Mao and Deng? Or just Mao himself?”