Xi Jinping

Comparing Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong is "inane", scoffs Rebecca Karl, a professor of Chinese History at New York University.

"China today has no socialist characteristics" she says "The subordination of labour to capital is complete. It's hard to deny that millions of Chinese hold Xi personally responsible for the cruelty of China's grim lockdowns. "Everything and everybody got a cut, but it got out of control," he adds. As I prepared to leave China in 2008, the Soviet-era airport had given way to a glittering megastructure designed by Norman Foster. In 1992, Deng - who had remained China's "paramount leader" - declared that the party should allow "some people to get rich first". The word on everyone's lips was "xia hai" or "dive into the sea". By the time I returned in 1998 the whole country had taken to heart Deng's invocation "to get rich is glorious". "My first introduction to China was in the 1980s, when the debates about China's future were huge, significant, and consequential," Prof Karl says. He ran the Communist Party - and the country - from the republic's founding in 1949 until the day he died in 1976. Hardliners, led by Premier Li Peng, believed the students' goal was to overthrow the party, and wanted the protests quashed. The truth is Xi's path to power was far from inevitable. He is known, only half-jokingly, as the Chairman of Everything.

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party elected Mr Xi as its General Secretary for another five-year term, Xinhua reported, tilting the country ...

"Please accept my warmest congratulations to you upon the glad news that ... Mr Putin said he would be "happy to continue our constructive dialogue and close common work aimed at strengthening the ... Now, he is much better," Xinhua said on Twitter, a social media platform that is blocked in China. strategic cooperation between our countries," according to a statement from the Kremlin, as he wished Mr Xi prosperity and "new successes". Analysts were closely watching for whether the party charter would be amended to enshrine "Xi Jinping Thought" as a guiding philosophy, a move that would put Mr Xi on a par with Mao. "I wish to thank the whole Party sincerely for the trust you have placed in us," he told journalists at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, promising to "work diligently in the performance of our duties to prove worthy of the great trust of our Party and our people".

The 69-year-old has secured a third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party.

2017: China launches a harsh crackdown on the Uighur and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the Xinjiang region after extremist attacks. This symbolically elevates him to Mao’s level as a leader whose ideology is identified by his name. 2002: Mr Xi is transferred to neighbouring Zhejiang province, where he is appointed party chief, a post that outranks governor in the Chinese system. 1982-85: Mr Xi is assigned as deputy and then leader of the Communist Party in Zhengding county, south of Beijing in Hebei province. June 15 1953: Xi Jinping was born in Beijing, the son of Xi Zhongxun, a senior Communist Party official and former guerrilla commander in the civil war that brought the communists to power in 1949. Chinese president Xi Jinping has secured a third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, paving the way for him to remain in power for at least five more years — and possibly longer.

The party also named a seven-member Standing Committee, its inner circle of power, dominated by Xi allies after Premier Li Keqiang, the number two leader and an ...

Its 24-member Politburo has none following the departure of vice premier Sun Chunlan, who is in her 70s. Wang Huning, a former law school dean who is chief of ideology, stayed on the committee. Mr Xi has called for the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” and a revival of the party’s “original mission” as social, economic and culture leader in a throwback to what he sees as a golden age after it took power in 1949. Those posts are to be assigned when the legislature meets next year. The number seven member is Li Xi, the party secretary of Guangdong province in the south east, the centre of China’s export-oriented manufacturing industry. President Xi Jinping increased his dominance over China as he was named to another term as head of the ruling Communist Party in a break with tradition.

The lineup reveals the extent of Mr. Xi's control over the Chinese Community Party. He was selected for a third term as leader, breaking with recent norms.

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has formally stepped into his third term ruling China with an iron grip on power, as he revealed a top leadership body stacked ...

“The current situation is something unprecedented … we’re seeing a kind of re-centralised bureaucracy in China, which will definitely impact the future China’s economic foreign policy trajectory,” he said. Instead, Xi had filled the four open spots on the seven-member body with Xi long-time allies and proteges, Li Qiang, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi, clearing the path for him to rule for a third term with minimal internal resistance – and underlining that affinity to Xi trumps all else in China’s current political landscape.

Li Qiang becomes the party's second-highest ranking official after presiding over disruptive Covid lockdowns.

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China's president doubles down on ruling for life, excluding potential future leaders or factional rivals.

Xi’s commitment to annex and “re-educate” Taiwan were this week enshrined in the party constitution. Hu was escorted from the stage at the closing of the party congress on Saturday, apparently reluctantly, in an episode that sealed Xi’s pre-eminence. Hu Chunhua had been tipped as a prospective new PSC member, but Xi found no place for the 59-year-old who was perceived by some analysts as a potential threat to the leader. “Xi has reiterated several times that the performance indicators that matters above all in Xi’s new era is political loyalty,” said Sung. A decade of political purges, increased surveillance and tightened social control has resulted in the 69-year-old leader consolidating personal power to a level not seen since Mao Zedong. For the first time in 25 years there was no woman on the politburo; there has never been a woman on the highest seat of power the politburo standing committee.

Having ruled China for 10 years already, Mr Xi will now stay on for at least five more years, and in theory he could make himself leader for life.

There also was no obvious successor in the standing committee line-up. He has purged rivals and stifled dissent. His leadership of the procession served as the confirmation he will remain as the general secretary of the party. All have worked closely with him at various points in his career and are likely considered highly trusted. Two figures in particular, Li Keqiang and Wang Yang, are notable in their demotion from the standing committee. All four are men considered to be within Mr Xi's inner circle.

Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-un first leaders to offer congratulations.

The incident gave rise to speculation in the international press that Mr Hu (79) was being publicly humiliated or purged but Chinese state news agency Xinhua said he had been taken ill. But he said on Sunday that China would remain open to the world, rejecting the idea of a decoupling from other economies. He said the new leadership team would keep China’s economy, which has been hit by the impact of a zero-Covid policy and a deflating property bubble, on a steady course.