Xi Jinping becomes most powerful leader since Mao Zedong

Almaty. October 24. Silkroadnews - Xi Jinping becomes the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, The Guardian reports.
“Xi Jinping has been consecrated as China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong after a new body of political thought carrying his name was added to the Communist party’s constitution,” the publication reads.
It is noted that the symbolic move was made on the final day of a week-long political forum held in Beijing - the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party - at which Xi promised to lead the world’s second largest economy into a “new era” of international influence.
At the closing ceremony in the Great Hall of the People on Tuesday, it was announced that Xi Jinping’s Thoughts on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era had been included in the charter of the Communist Party of China.
“The congress unanimously agrees that Xi Jinping Thought … shall constitute [one of] the guides to action of the party in the party constitution,” the party’s statement reads.
In a brief addressing to more than 2,200 delegates, Xi said: ““Today we, more than 1.3bn Chinese people, live in jubilation and dignity. ... Our party shows strong, firm and vibrant leadership. Our socialist system demonstrates great strength and vitality. The Chinese people and the Chinese nation embrace brilliant prospects.
"Today we, more than 1.3 billion Chinese, live in glee and dignity. Our party demonstrates a strong, firm and vibrant leadership. Our socialist system demonstrates great strength and vitality. The Chinese people and the Chinese nation have bright prospects. Living in such a great era, we are all the more confident and proud, and also feel the heavy weight of responsibility upon us. We must have the courage and resolve to build on the historic achievements made by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Chinese Communists generation after generation, create new accomplishments befitting this great epoch and stride forward to an ever promising future,” Xi said.
It is reported that since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, only one leader, Mao Zedong himself, has been honored in such a way while still alive, in his case with a political philosophy called Mao Zedong Thought. Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China’s economic opening, also boasts a school of eponymous ideology in the party charter, Deng Xiaoping Theory, but that was included only after his death in 1997. Thus, Xi Jinping became the second Chinese leader after a new body of political thought carrying his name was added to the Communist Party’s constitution.