Xi Jinping: How the power of China’s supreme leader is going to increase
China’s ruling Communist Party may hand over the highest office to President Xi Jinping for five more years.
Xi Jinping is the most powerful leader in China after Mao Zedong. The two-term rule was changed in China in 2018. After that the Communist Party is going to take this decision.
Now it is believed that Xi Jinping’s hold on China will become even stronger.
It is also possible that 69-year-old Jinping remains in power in China for life. The important Congress of the Communist Party is starting in the capital Beijing on 16 October (Monday).
What happens in the party’s Congress?
Xi Jinping is also called ‘Paramount’ or ‘Supreme Leader’.
The decision to continue Xi Jinping as party general secretary and head of the Central Military Commission will probably be taken in the party’s Congress itself. Congress is held once in every five years.
At the same time, the decision of his continuance in the presidency can be taken in the annual National People’s Congress. It is to be organized in 2023.
About 2,300 delegates will gather for a week in the Great Hall of Tiananmen Square for the party congress.
Of these, about two hundred will be included in the central committee of the party. Apart from these, there will also be 170 alternate members.
The Central Committee will elect 25 people to the party’s Politburo. The Politburo will then choose the members of its Standing Committee.
These people are top of the top. There are currently seven members on the Standing Committee, including President Xi Jinping.
These are all men. However, not everything happens only in the party Congress.
A meeting of the Central Committee can be held a day after the main Congress ends.
importance of decision
Xi Jinping is leading the world’s second largest economy and one of the most powerful armies.
Some analysts say that during the third term, Xi Jinping will lead China to more authoritarian politics.
“China is moving towards totalitarianism under Xi Jinping’s leadership,” says Professor Steve Song of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
Professor Steve says, “China was a totalitarian system under Mao’s leadership, China has not reached there yet but is moving in that direction.”
