China after the 20th CCP Congress: a new stage in Xi Jinping’s revolution
China after the 20th CCP Congress: a new stage in Xi Jinping’s revolution

Author(s): Michał Bogusz
Subject(s): National Economy, Economic policy, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Economic development, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: OSW Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia
Keywords: China; Xi Jinping; The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); China's GDP; PRC’s socio-political system;
Summary/Abstract: The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ended with the complete triumph of Xi Jinping and marks the culmination of a process of radical overhaul of the political system created in the 1980s and 1990s. It marks not only the end of collective leadership in the party, but also a redefinition of the relationship between the party and the state and the relationship between the CCP and society. The transformation of the CCP carried out by Xi Jinping over the past decade provides him with the tools to overcome institutional inertia and the resistance of middle and lower-level party-state cadres – factors that are among the elements holding back the changes in the socio-economic development model of the People’s Republic of China(PRC) that were first announced 15 years ago. Therefore, radical and rapid decisions in this sphere are to be expected in the coming years. They will bring further the Marxist-nationalist ideologisation of the PRC, the introduction of a mechanism of mass redistribution and an increase in the role of the party and the state in all aspects of the social and private life of the population. This, in turn, heralds an increase in totalitarian tendencies.

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