Xi Jinping introduced the new leadership of the Communist Party, and his allies were packed: who he appointed to the Standing Committee

President of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party, Xi JinpingGiven this Sunday Four new members of the Politburo Standing Committee Coaching is a system that creates coaching leadership.

Apart from Ji (1) and Zhao Leji (3) and Wang Huning (4), continued in the organ. The new members are Li Qiang (2), Cai Qi (5), Ding Xiong (6) and Li Si (7), At a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the President presented to the press.

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th of the CCP, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang and Han Zheng have retired due to age.

With no woman in the Asian giant’s highest power structure — not even in the Politburo, for the first time in 25 years — any hint of opposition to Xi has disappeared. Vice Premier Hu Chunhua, the sole representative of former President Hu Jintao’s faction and the current Prime Minister (who has already left), left Li Keqiang.

Thus, The Chinese leader bans representatives of the Communist Youth League, considered the most liberal and pragmatic wing of the country’s leadership, from high circles..

In addition, Xi was re-elected as general secretary of the CPC and chairman of the party’s Central Military Commission this Sunday.

In a brief and sober address to the press to introduce the new members of the Standing Committee, the Chinese leader ditched his usual sloganeering and urged the hundred-year-old Communist establishment to continue “in its own revolution” and “become”. The strong and reliable backbone of the Chinese people.

“I faced new challenges in this new path, We must be very vigilant, always exercise restraint and prudence, and move forward with a strict and understanding party administration.G said. Reiterating that the world is “facing unprecedented challenges,” he added that “China cannot develop without the world, and the world needs China.”

The Chinese leadership now has four new members, all men between the ages of 60 and 66. Nothing, a priori, looks like a possible dolphin.

Liqiang (63 years old)

In theory The current Prime Minister should be replaced next MarchLi Keqiang, Xi appoints Li Qiang as No. 2, General Secretary of the CPC in Shanghai.

Li rose to the top despite failing to stem a flood of COVID cases in the eastern megalopolis last spring, which led to a nearly three-month strict lockdown.

His toughness in imposing restrictions and his friendship with Xi, whom he accompanied during his state visit to the United States in 2015, weighed in his nomination.

Li Qiang’s rise was particularly unusual in that it positioned him as a potential prime minister despite his lack of experience as a government minister or deputy prime minister. However, he is considered close to Xi, as the two worked together in Zhejiang province in the early 2000s.

CAIQI (66 years old)

Part of the select team will include Cai Qi, CCP secretary in the capital Beijing, who already worked with Xi when he led the party in Zhejiang.

His tenure was more varied and challenging than some of his predecessors. It has delivered the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on time and with relatively little disruption, and has enabled Xi’s “zero-Covid” strategy without causing the mass upheaval seen in Shanghai.

Cai, 66, a native of Fujian and considered one of the party’s top intellectuals, holds a Ph.D. in political economy from Fujian Normal University. degree and at the same time proves to be a capable manager.

DING XUEXIANG (60 years old)

Ding is another well-known Xi ally, with whom Xi began to interact when he was temporarily working as general secretary in Shanghai. Since then, they have not stopped working together.

In recent years, Ding has stood out as director of the CCP’s General Office, a position defined as the Chinese president’s chief of staff, with extensive control over information and access to officials. That means Xi has a lot of faith in him, and Ding is often among the few officials who attend important meetings with the secretary-general. It earned him the nicknames “Xi’s alter ego” and “Xi’s chief of staff”.

Ding, 60, joined the Politburo in 2017 and has held various positions within the party beyond government administration. Unlike Wang Huning, he was never a governor, provincial party secretary, or minister.

LI XI (66 years)

The current General Secretary of the PCCh in Canton Province – previously he held the same position in Liaoning – also jumps to the leadership of the formation.

Between 1935 and 1949, when the People’s Republic was proclaimed, Li grew close to Xi’s family by running Yan Prefecture, the center of Mao’s Long March and revolutionary China.

A chairman has been appointed Head of the party’s dreaded Disciplinary CommissionOne of Xi’s “star programs,” it generated more than 4.6 million cases over the past five years.

Li Xi’s promotion to the Politburo Standing Committee appears to be a recognition of his success in promoting integration between Guangdong, its technology hub Shenzhen, and the international financial hub of Hong Kong.

Li also holds the distinction of being the party secretary in Yan’an, where the party established its headquarters at the end of the famous Long March to escape Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist forces. Caves carved into the loose hills where Mao Zedong and other party leaders emerged from World War II have become pilgrimage sites for party loyalists. He later became deputy party secretary in Shanghai and then party secretary in the northeastern province of Liaoning.

Repeaters: Wang Huning (age 67) and Zhao Lezhi (age 65)

Wang Huning makes up Xi’s inner circle and has been a key adviser and “ideologist” of the CCP in recent years, betting on a strong and centralized state. His potential prize was a promotion to the presidency of the National People’s Congress (ANP), China’s legislature.

The party’s senior political theorist, 62, has been a member of the Politburo Standing Committee since 2017 and rose from fifth place, reflecting his status as one of Xi’s top advisers. Fourth place usually goes to the chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the CNP’s advisory body that oversees non-communist groups, religious organizations and minority groups.

Academically trained, Wang has often assumed the role of adviser on party ideology to successive leaders. Unusually for those at the pinnacle of power, he has no experience as a regional governor, party leader or cabinet minister.

For his part, Zhao has so far headed the party’s anti-corruption body, and experts believe he could succeed Li Xi as head of a key Chinese advisory body.

Zhao, 65, is considered by some analysts to be part of Xi’s “Shaanxi Gang,” made up of people with family ties in western Shaanxi province. Before moving to Beijing, Zhao was party secretary in Shaanxi, and before that, in the far western province of Qinghai on the Tibetan Plateau, where he was born and spent his early life.

Zhao, like Xi, is a second-generation party member and, according to unconfirmed accounts, his parents were friends. The relationship is seen as enabling Xi to stay on indefinitely as the party’s general secretary, eliminating term limits.

(With information from EFE and AP)

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