Chinese Media Sing Praises of Xi Ahead of 6th Plenary Session

The 6th Plenary Session Opens Today... Comprehensive Summary of the Communist Party's 100 Years of Struggle Achievements and Historical Experiences
Xi Jinping's Grand Vision Unseen in China's Past 100 Years

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Jo Young-shin] Chinese media have begun to promote President Xi Jinping ahead of the opening of the 6th Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (hereinafter referred to as the 6th Plenary Session). The 6th Plenary Session, held over four days from the 8th to the 11th in Beijing, is expected to produce the Communist Party of China's third "historical resolution," drawing intense attention both inside and outside China. The historical resolution is a process that further solidifies President Xi's authority and serves as a preliminary step to justify his third term.

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On the 8th, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported in a special article titled "Continuously Strive, Open a New Era" that the 6th Plenary Session will comprehensively summarize the Communist Party's 100 years of struggle achievements and historical experiences, and that President Xi will lead China into a new era.

Xinhua News Agency stated that the Communist Party of China has written a magnificent epic over the past 100 years, and evaluated that President Xi has achieved historic accomplishments in socialism with Chinese characteristics since the 18th Party Congress (his inauguration). It emphasized that President Xi has a grand vision unseen in the past 100 years, and under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Xi at its core, the new journey to build a great socialist modern country and realize the second centenary goal will shine even brighter in the future.

The Communist Party's official newspaper, the People's Daily, reported on its front page that the Party Central Committee published a book titled "The People Are the Masters of the Country." The book introduces President Xi's remarks emphasizing that the masters of the country and the Party are the people, and that the people are the core component of the thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics. The People's Daily explained that this political philosophy of President Xi is the foundation for the realization of the Chinese Dream (Zhongguo Meng) of socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Chinese media such as the Global Times and Pengpai reported on the same day about the first spacewalk by Wang Yaping, China's first female astronaut, extensively promoting China's advanced space science and technology. These media reported that the astronauts conducted various space experiments, including using a robotic arm, outside the space station module from 18:51 on the 7th to 01:16 early morning on the 8th.

Some interpret that the Chinese astronauts' spacewalk was executed to coincide with the opening of the 6th Plenary Session. It is analyzed as a space event sufficient to demonstrate the leading leadership of the Communist Party Central Committee and the Chinese leadership.

Chinese media also gave significant coverage to economic aspects, such as the resolution of power shortages due to securing new coal stockpiles over the weekend, sufficient food stockpiles, and increased exports in October, indicating that China is maintaining steady growth.

Meanwhile, both inside and outside China, there are forecasts that after this 6th Plenary Session, President Xi will join Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping as one of China's three great leaders. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been only two historical resolutions. The Communist Party of China adopted the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues of the Party (from the Party's founding to the Anti-Japanese War)" at the 6th Plenary Session of the 6th Central Committee in 1945, and the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues of the Party Since the Founding of the Country (errors of the Cultural Revolution)" at the 6th Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee in 1981.

The 1945 resolution symbolized the beginning of the Mao Zedong era, and the 1981 resolution symbolized the beginning of the Deng Xiaoping era. If a historical resolution is adopted at this 6th Plenary Session, General Secretary Xi will become a leader on par with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The Chinese Communist Party History Exhibition Hall, which was opened to the public in July, already divides the history of the Communist Party of China into three major stages. The first stage is the "Mao Zedong era," the second stage is the "Deng Xiaoping (Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao) era," and the third stage is the "Xi Jinping era."

Along with the historical resolution, it is highly likely that new definitions of "common prosperity" and "democracy" will also be announced at this 6th Plenary Session. Since President Xi has already mentioned common prosperity, specific practical measures are expected to be discussed at this plenary session.

Democracy is also expected to be interpreted in a Chinese socialist manner. President Xi has mentioned that China has grown through process democracy, result democracy, procedural democracy, substantive democracy, direct democracy, indirect democracy, and people's democracy, and stated that the most practical and useful democracy is Chinese socialist democracy.

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