Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “work from the future” after securing a historic third term as China’s leader.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping began his unprecedented third five-year term under tighter control of the ruling Communist Party after filling the newly announced Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) with all his allies on October 23, 2022.
As many as four of Mr Xi’s (69) allies were appointed to the PBSC on Sunday, announced after the first meeting of the new Central Committee, which was unveiled at the CPC congress on Saturday. It was after the end.
With two other coalitions continuing on the PBSC, it marks an unprecedented clean sweep of all seven positions on the all-powerful body, the first time in Chinese Communist Party politics where power has previously been held by different party factions. There was joint power in between, which broke an arrangement. Mr. Shay.
Mr. Xi introduced the new leadership to the media on October 23, 2022, following the succession of former party chief Li Qiang in Shanghai; Zhao Lijie, former head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI); Wang Huning, Theoretician; former Beijing Party chief Cai Qi; Ding Xuexiang, Mr. Xi’s chief of staff; and Li Xi, party chief in key economic powerhouse Guangdong province.
Second-placed Mr Li is likely to take over from outgoing Premier Li Keqiang as the new premier in March, while Mr Zhao is likely to head the National People’s Congress or parliament. Mr Lee was appointed the new head of the powerful anti-corruption agency CCDI on Saturday.
Introducing the leadership, Mr. Xi said, “We will not be afraid of strong winds, choppy waters or dangerous storms.” He said that CPC can become invincible only if it remains committed to self-improvement.
All six leaders have close personal and long-standing ties to Mr. Xi. Second-ranking Li Qiang (63) served as Mr Xi’s chief of staff in Zhejiang province, where he was party chief in the mid-2000s.
Mr Xi, like Zhao Leji (62), has roots in Shaanxi province and recently led Mr Xi’s anti-corruption crackdown, which also removed many of his rivals as head of the CCDI. Wang Huning (67) has served as Mr Xi’s key ideological czar – he also served former leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao – and is seen as the brains behind many of Mr Xi’s campaigns. Goes and is seen as their superior speech writer. Cai Qi (67) served as director of Mr Xi’s office when he served in Fujian province, and most recently as director of the General Office of the National Security Committee.
Ding Xuexiang (60), the youngest member of the new PBSC, served as Mr. Xi’s chief of staff as director of the General Office of the Party Central Committee. He also served as Mr. Xi’s chief of staff when he was Party Secretary of Shanghai Province, and in the previous term, both Mr. Ding and Mr. Wang regularly accompanied Mr. Xi on all his foreign trips.
Li Xi (66), who heads the CCDI, has family ties to Mr. Xi going back to the 1980s, when he worked for Li Zhizhi, Mr. Xi’s father. Zhongxin had close associates and friends. He later became party secretary of the former revolutionary base of Yan’an, which also has close ties to the Xi family.
The CPC congress, usually a tightly choreographed affair, ended on Saturday with two surprises, both of which underscored Mr. Xi’s dominance.
A frail-looking former leader Hu Jintao (79), once a powerhouse in his own right in the party and recently known for failing health, was unexpectedly ushered off the stage.
Another surprise was the exclusion of former premier Li Keqiang and former fourth-ranked PBSC member Wang Yang Ka – both allies of Mr Hu – from the new Central Committee announced at the congress. . His early retirement paved the way for Mr Xi and his allies to sweep the party’s top body on Sunday.
