Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai, east China, July 17, 2026.
Every party that governs for a long time eventually faces the same quiet question: not how it will overcome its rivals, but how it will keep faith with itself. It is a question familiar to any liberation movement that has carried the weight of governing long after the struggle. Many people, in China and abroad, have asked a similar question of the Communist Party of China: how does a party of more than 100 million members, leading a nation of over 1.4 billion people, remain energetic and renewed rather than settling into complacency? Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese President, has offered an answer built around six defining strengths.
The first is a commitment to truth and direction. Rather than borrowing any foreign blueprint wholesale, the Party has worked to consistently integrated the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with China’s fine traditional culture, constantly testing new thinking against new practice and shaping a path suited to its own conditions.
