PRESIDENT Xi Jinping of China has been elected to another 5-year term at the conclusion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) last week, aside from remaining as the general secretary of the CPC and head of China’s Central Military Commission.
Appearing before the media last October 23, 2022, a day after the conclusion of the national congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, President Xi, was accompanied by the new elected members of the CPC Central Committee and the 25-member Standing Committee of the CPC Political Bureau, the highest political office in China.
During his opening speech when the congress opened last October 16, 2022, President Xi stressed that China is committed “to the right course of economic globalization and opposes all forms of unilateralism.”
“China stands firmly against all forms of hegemonism and power politics, the Cold War mentality, interference in other countries’ internal affairs, and double standards.
“No matter what stage of development it reaches, China will never seek hegemony or engage in expansionism,” Pres. Xi assured the global community that watch the proceedings with keen interest.
His assurance is also a clear criticism of Western Imperialism’s continued obsession with unilateralism and global hegemony under the leadership of US Imperialism that has only brought strife and misery to huge parts of the world, especially in Third World countries.
“Only when all countries pursue the cause of common good, live in harmony, and engage in cooperation for mutual benefit will there be sustained prosperity and guaranteed security,” the report of the session added.
Official Chinese state media said the congress, convened every 5-years, opened with more than 2,340 delegates and special delegates coming from the ranks of the 96-million members of the CPC. The CPC was established in Shanghai around July 1921 with only about 60 original members) in the whole of China.
President Xi also gave credit to ‘Marxism,’ named after the German philosopher, Karl Marx (1818-1883), as the fundamental guiding ideology upon which the CPC and China are founded and thrive.
“Our experience has taught us that, at the fundamental level, we owe the success of our Party and socialism with Chinese characteristics to the fact that Marxism works, particularly when it is adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of our times,” he said.
For the next 15 years or from 2020 until 2035, China’s next goal is to build China into “a great modern socialist country” that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful from 2035 through the middle of this century.
The CPC already noted that its first “centenary goal” of turning China into a “moderately prosperous society” has been a success.
“Now, we are taking confident strides on a new journey to turn China into a modern socialist country in all respects, to advance toward the Second Centenary Goal, and to embrace the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization,” President Xi said during his meeting with the media on October 23, 2022.
“No matter what stage of development it reaches, China will never seek hegemony or engage in expansionism,” Pres. Xi– opening remarks at the start of the 20th CPC National Congress, Beijing, October 16, 2022.
Along the way, China, in February 2021, announced it has lifted the remaining 100 million of its more than 1.4 billion population from absolute poverty, a development that is one of its kind in the history of humanity and yet to be matched by the capitalist West, including the United States (see also Pinoy Expose, March 1, 2021).
The struggle to eliminate absolute poverty in China was more remarkable and earned praises everywhere as it was accomplished despite the global ravages brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new CPC ‘Politburo’
Aside from Pres. Xi Jinping, 69, the 25-member CPC ‘Politburo’ (Political Bureau) is now composed of the following:
Li Qiang, 63, also secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee; Zhao Leji, 65; Wang Huning, 67, also director, Office of the Central Commission for Deepening Reform; Cai Qi, 67, also secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee;
Ding Xuexiang, 60, also director, CPC Central Committee and secretary, Working Committee of the Central Party and State Institutions; Li Xi, 66, also secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and secretary, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee; Ma Xingrui, 63, also secretary of the CPC Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee and First Political Commissar, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; Wang Yi, 69, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Yin Li, 60, also secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People’s Congress;
Shi Taifeng, 66, also Group Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Liu Guozhong, 60, also secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee; Li Ganjie, 58, also secretary of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee; Li Shulei, 58, member, CPC Central Committee Secretariat and Deputy Head of Publicity Department; Li Hongzhong, 66, also secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee; Gen. He Weidong, 65, Vice Chairman, Central Military Commission; He Lifeng, 67, also secretary of the National Development and Reform Commission; Gen. Zhang Youxia, 72, also Vice Chairman, Central Military Commission; Zhang Guoqing, 58, also secretary of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee; Police General Chen Wenqing, 62, also secretary of the Ministry of State Security; Chen Jining, 58, also deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee; Chen Min’er, 62, also secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee; Yuan Jiajun, 60, also secretary of the CPC Zheijiang Provincial Committee;
Huang Kunming, 66, also head of the CPC Central Committee Publicity Department; Liu Jinguo, 67, also vice chairman of the Central Commission for Discipline and the National Commission of Supervision; and, General Police Commissioner Wang Xiaohong, 65, also CPC Committee Secretary of the Ministry of Public Security (credit also to CGTN).