During his century of existence, the CCP had so far adopted only two resolutions on its history, each time before the opening of a new political page.
Le Monde with AFP
It is unsurprisingly that the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) adopted, Thursday, November 11, a text that has still raised the stature of President Xi Jinping among the icons of the country. The sixth plenum of the nineteenth central committee of the Chinese Communist Party has approved a resolution on “the great successes” of the Movement founded in 1921. Dykrambic, the text published by the ‘China Agence New asserts that the CCP, which governs the country with a hand of Iron for sixty-twelve, has written “the most magnificent epic in the history of the Chinese nation on millennia”.
In a country where history is traditionally used to legitimize power, Xi Jinping took advantage of this resolution to present themselves in the indisputable heir of the plan. Since arriving in 2012, “Chinese socialism has entered a new era”, according to an excerpt from the resolution broadcast by the official news agency. The “thought” of the strong man of Beijing “is the quintessence of culture and the Chinese soul”, continues the text. The presence of xi jinping at the “heart” of the party in power “is of decisive importance (…) to promote the historical process of the great renewal of the Chinese nation”.
Xi Jinping is often qualified as more powerful Chinese leader since the founder of the plan, Mao Zedong (1949-1976). Last July, in Mao costume, he had solemnly celebrated the party’s foundation’s birthday on the huge Tiananmen Place in Beijing.
Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping
During his century of existence, the CCP had so far adopted only two resolutions on its history, each time before the opening of a new political page. The first, in 1945, had strengthened the authority of Mao Zedong four years before the arrival of the Communists. The second, in 1981, had given Deng Xiaoping, when he launched the economic reforms, the opportunity to turn the Maoism page, recognizing the “errors” of the Grand Timonier. By adopting a third text, Xi Jinping puts his steps in those of his two illustrious predecessors, in order to better open a new page to his name.
Since its accession to the position of CCP Secretary General in 2012, then President of the People’s Republic the following year, he has ceased to centralize power in his hands. In 2018, he had changed the Constitution to stay at the head of the country beyond the limit of two mandates. His “thought” was also included in the basic law, like Mao’s. Its ascent has been accompanied by a tour of screws towards any form of dispute, whether in Hong Kong or in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, for Muslim majority. It is now air of Chinese “victory” against coronavirus, although sporadic outbreaks are still manifested in the country where the epidemic expressed at the end of 2019.
Retrieval of power
The Conclave has probably given rise to backstage, one year of the entry based on a new leadership team at the next Congress. It does not quite doubt that Xi Jinping will be renewed in the fall of 2022 for a third term (never seen since the end of the MAO era), even if it has just reached the age limit of 68 years traditionally imposed on Chinese leaders. Several of them should, however, retire, including Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
The Standing Committee on the Party Political Office could, at the five-year Congress of the next year, move from seven to five members, “which would still increase the authority of XI” within this Cenacle which holds reality of power, supposes the dissident political scientist Wu Qiang.