LATEST: China's ruling Communist Party adopts landmark resolution on its history and achievements, placing President Xi alongside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping as the only leaders to have presided over such a resolution in the party's 100 year history.
from primary school to college. A historical resolution will further entrench his personal leadership as the defining characteristic of Chinese politics for years and possibly decades to come.
Mao Zedong reviews the army of the "Cultural Revolution" at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Aug. 18, 1966.Mao and Deng both used their historical resolutions to criticize what had come before: Mao, in 1945, asserting his dominance as ruler at the birth of communist China, and Deng, in 1981, carefully criticizing Mao’s mistakes and paving the way for greater economic liberalization.
Xi Jinping led events marking the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 in Beijing earlier this year.In theory, these sessions are a chance for the Politburo Standing Committee, the party’s most powerful body, to propose new policies for review.
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