Beijing: The top leaders of the ruling Communist Party in China on Monday began an important meeting that was expected to be stronger than the grip of President XI Jinping on power.
About 400 members of the strong party central committee gathered in Beijing for a four-day plenary, which – like all Chinese secret leadership meetings – detained behind closed doors.
The Xinhua State News Agency said XI opened a meeting with work reports and “explanation of the design of the resolution on the great achievement and historical experience” for its history for 100 years.
The resolution will set a stage for the 20th party congress next year, where XI is widely expected to state that he will serve the third term in the office, strengthening his position as the strongest Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
The media of the country has praised XI’s leadership in the run-up meeting this week, with Xinhua stating that he was “a man from a deep thought and feeling, a man who inherited his inhabitations but dared to innovate, and a man who had a vision that looked advanced and committed to work tirelessly “.
It is widely regarded as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao, the XI term has been characterized by extensive anti-corruption, repressive policies in areas such as Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, and an increasingly assertive approach to foreign relations.
He has also created a cult leadership that has rebelled criticism, dripping rivals and introduced his own political theory – known as XI Jinping thoughts – to school students.
Chris Johnson, a senior colleague at the Center for Strategic International Studies, told Podcasts this new resolution can mark the opportunity for XI “to tidy up …
Some bits of history he did not like”, including the excess of economic reform in the 1990s.
XI recently launched a “General Prosperity” campaign, designed to overcome wealth inequality and tighten supervision of business giants that grow at home.
The central committee resolution will mark a third of its kind in the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The first, passed below MAO in 1945, helped strengthen his authority on the CCP four years before it seized power.
The second, under Deng Xiaoping in 1981, saw the regime adopting economic reform and recognized the “error” of the Mao way.
The latest can see XI “apply to Deng what Deng did to Mao, namely criticizing the excess reform and opening of Deng Xiaoping policy,” Johnson added.
The time is significant, coming a year before XI is expected to secure the third term unprecedented in Congress two decades.
After the hot-term boundaries in the 2018 Constitutional Amendment, XI has not yet appointed a clear successor and is expected to lead to at least 2027.
“XI Jinping has begun to rewrite the party history in school books, universities, and press.
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greatly reduces failure – Big leap forward, cultural revolution – and glorify its action as party secretary general, “said Alice Ekman from the EU security institution.
This new resolution “was clearly part of Xi Jinping’s efforts to extend his presence at the head of the party,” he added.
After the post-pandemic economy and Taiwan’s questions – democratic islands claimed by Beijing as their own territory – can also be on the agenda of this week’s meeting.