Why Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants more technocrats in key roles

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[FarCenter]

President Xi Jinping is expected to promote more technocrats to key positions in the Chinese Communist Party to spearhead his technological ambitions. Whether they can deliver his goals remains unclear, but analysts said their ascendancy will redefine the party’s politics for years. Moreover, they said that many technocrats – who have background in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – already hold key ministerial and provincial positions.

The party will undergo a major leadership shake-up at the party congress later this year , and more technocrats are expected to be elevated to the 200-member Central Committee, which is responsible for all major policies of the ruling party. According to the analysts, the new committee will place an emphasis on technological self-reliance over the next five years – especially since technological decoupling and competition between China and the US is quickly becoming a reality.

Xi has made the current Central Committee the most educated one in the party’s history, with 28 per cent of its full members holding doctorates and 12 per cent having received some education overseas,

The report said the promotion of technocrats has picked up pace since 2017 when Xi began his second five-year term as general secretary, with 17 out of 30 top provincial promotions going to cadres with STEM backgrounds, compared with six out of a total 23 during his first term. This marks a “dramatic reversal” of fortune, the report said. Under Xi’s predecessor Hu Jintao, only about 30 per cent of provincial top jobs went to the technocrats. The percentage reached a low of 14 per cent in Hu’s second term from 2007 to 2012, the report said. However, Xi is still behind Jiang Zemin, who was in power between 1992 and 2002, when nearly 80 per cent of provincial promotions went to the technocrats.

[cgbg]

China has yet to figure out that math and science and engineering are racist and must be dumbed down so every ethnic minority in their country can compete.

We need to send over some of our brilliant social scientists to educate them.

:-)

[alexander_busek]

Why Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants more technocrats in key roles

When asked, "Why?", Xi replied, "Because you can never have too many!"

Regards,

[Georgia Girl 2]

I thought Xi was incapacitated with a brain aneurysm?

[FarCenter]

As long as Xi has a brain aneurysm, he is OK. It’s when it ruptures and he no longer has a brain aneurysm that he may die. However, depending on how large it is, location, etc. they know what treatment to give and how to handle the emergency, basically a hemorrhagic stroke.