As the Chinese Communist Party Congress drew to a close on Saturday, the president is expected to be confirmed as the country’s president in March 2023.
Xi Jinping will receive a third term at the helm of China this Sunday, according to the official agency New China, at the end of a congress that allowed him to strengthen his grip on the Communist Party.
Xi Jinping was reappointed as the party’s general secretary for five years in a closed-door vote and is therefore expected to be officially confirmed as the country’s president in March 2023. The leader was “also appointed chairman of the Central Military Commission,” the state news agency said.
“I want to sincerely thank the entire party for the trust they have placed in us,” he told reporters of the leadership team, adding he promised to “work hard to fulfill the stain.”
Xi Jinping then asserted that “the world needs China.” “China cannot develop without the world, and the world needs China too,” he said, hailing the “two miracles” achieved in the country: “rapid economic development and long-term social stability.”
His allies placed within the Standing Committee
The president has also included several of his allies on the Standing Committee, the seven-strong group at the pinnacle of power in China.
Li Qiang, Party leader in Shanghai, Ding Xuexiang, Xi Jinping’s private secretary and Li Xi, Party leader in southern Guangdong province, are among the new members of the committee, according to images broadcast on state television from the People’s Palace in Beijing.
According to its new composition, the Politburo, the decision-making body of the Chinese Communist Party, has no women for the first time in 25 years. Sun Chunlan, the only woman who was part of this group of 25 people, has retired and none of the new members are women.