People familiar with the matter said that the main purpose of the new historical resolution is to highlight Xi Jinping’s achievements since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, including his achievements in anti-corruption, military reform, and poverty alleviation. It will compare him with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. , Defined him as the third leader of the Communist Party of China to “open up a new era.” Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao before Xi Jinping will be attributed to the continuation of Deng Xiaoping’s political legacy, and thus will be weakened.
The CCP passed the first two historical resolutions in 1945 and 1981, both of which have significant political weight. They established Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping as the core leadership positions of the CCP, and became a watershed in the struggle between the lines of the party. Among them, the first resolution was the “Resolution on Certain Historical Issues” adopted by the Seventh Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which brought a general liquidation to the previous CCP leaders before Mao; the second was passed by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The “Resolution on Several Historical Issues of the Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China” summarized the CCP’s establishment of its power, focusing on negating the ten-year Cultural Revolution.
People familiar with the matter said that, unlike the previous two resolutions, the third historical resolution will not completely negate the policies of the previous CCP leaders. Status.
Beginning on November 1, the People’s Daily, the CCP’s “weathervane” party media, has launched a series of reports praising Xi Jinping’s “Key Decisions in the New Era”, with different themes every day, reviewing Xi Jinping’s “planning, deployment, and personal planning”. A series of major strategies and major decisions promoted, including: Xi Jinping’s “personal command” of Wuhan epidemic prevention, “personal supervision” of poverty alleviation work, and his “forward-looking” promotion of the construction of a new development pattern, and so on.
People familiar with the matter analyzed that the 2018 CCP’s constitutional amendment has cleared the constitutional obstacles for repeated re-election of the President, and the new resolution will further establish Xi Jinping’s centuries-old historical position in the CCP.
Cai Wenxuan, a researcher at the Institute of Political Affairs of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, recently analyzed that, as a highlight of the Sixth Plenary Session of the CCP, the third historical resolution will weaken Deng Xiaoping’s political legacy, such as: political system reform and abolition of lifelong leadership.
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