Chinese leaders preparing official history to elevate Xi
ABC News
Chinese leaders are preparing a political history that would give President Xi Jinping status beside the ruling Communist Party’s most important figures, setting the stage for Xi to extend his rule next year
BEIJING -- Chinese leaders are preparing to issue a political history that would give President Xi Jinping status beside the ruling Communist Party's most important figures, setting the stage for Xi to extend his rule next year.
A meeting of some 200 Central Committee members that was ending Thursday was considering a resolution on the party's “major achievements and historical experience."
That would be only the third statement of its kind in the party's 100-year history after one issued under Mao Zedong, who led the party to power in 1949, and Deng Xiaoping, who launched reforms that turned China into an economic powerhouse.
Issuing a similar statement under Xi would confirm he has amassed enough authority to ignore two-decade-old party practice that says he should step down next year when his second five-year term as general secretary ends.