China under Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, and later in 2016 was proclaimed the CCP's 4th leadership core, following Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin.
Xi Jinping Administration 以习近平同志为核心的党中央 | |
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5th generation Communist leadership of the People's Republic of China | |
| Incumbent | |
| Date formed | 15 November 2012 |
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| Head of state | Xi Jinping |
| Head of government | Li Keqiang Li Qiang |
| No. of ministers | 31 |
| Member party | Chinese Communist Party Eight minor parties |
| History | |
| Election(s) | November 2012 October 2017 October 2022 |
| Legislature term(s) | 12th National People's Congress 13th National People's Congress 14th National People's Congress |
| Predecessor | Hu Jintao Administration/ Xi–Li Administration |
| China under Xi Jinping | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 习近平体制 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 習近平體制 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Xi Jinping System | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 以习近平同志为核心的党中央 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 以習近平同志為核心的黨中央 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the Core | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 以习近平同志为总书记的党中央 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 以習近平同志為總書記的黨中央 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the General Secretary | ||||||||||
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His rule is often described as an authoritarian leader by political and academic observers, while his tenure has included an increase of censorship and mass surveillance, deterioration in human rights, including the internment of a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang (which some observers have described as part of a genocide), a cult of personality developing around Xi, and the removal of term limits for the presidency in 2018. Xi's political ideas and principles, known as Xi Jinping Thought, have been incorporated into the party and national constitutions. As the central figure of the fifth generation of leadership of the PRC, Xi has centralized institutional power by taking on multiple positions, including new CCP committees on national security, economic and social reforms, military restructuring and modernization, and the Internet. He and the CCP Central Committee passed a "historical resolution" in November 2021.
The name Xi Jinping administration is officially called the "Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary" (以习近平同志为总书记的党中央) from 2012 to 2016, and "Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the Core" (以习近平同志为核心的党中央) since 2016.