Like other Chinese Presidents before him. President Xi Jinping simultaneously serves as the Head of State in his role of President, the leader of the Communist Party in his role as Chairman, and the commander of the country’s armed forces, in his role as Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
The most important advantage of this system is to ensure the leadership of the Communist Party in China and to ensure the long-term stability of the country.
As all the peoples of China are under the leadership of the Communist Party, such three-in-one role will enhance the leadership and better the combination of the people and Communist Party of China.
The role of the Communist Party of China is clearly listed in the Preamble of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China.It was the Communist Party of China that led the various peoples of China to complete an arduous struggle and an endless series of twists and turns, including armed conflict as well as other forms and abolished the imperial, feudal, and bureaucratic-capitalist systems of governance, and finally establish the People’s Republic of China and won a great victory for the New Democratic Revolution. Since then, the Chinese people have had control of state power, becoming masters of their own country.
Besides, the victory of China’s New Democratic Revolution and the successes of the socialist cause are the achievements of all the peoples of China, as led by the Chinese Communist Party and guided by Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, secured by upholding truth, correcting errors, and overcoming numerous hardships and obstacles. China will remain in the first phase of socialism for a significant length of time. The primary task of the nation is to concentrate efforts for socialist modernization along the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important “Three Represents” thought, Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, all the peoples of China will continue to sustain the people’s democratic dictatorship, the path of socialism, and the reform and opening up of China, improve steadily the various institutions of socialism, develop the socialist market economy, socialist democracy, and socialist law-based governance, and foster self-reliance and hard work to progressively modernize the country’s industry, agriculture, national defense, and the fields of science and technology, promoting the coordinated development of the material, political, spiritual, social and ecological facets of civilization, building China into a prosperous, powerful, democratic, culturally-advanced, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Furthermore, during the long years of revolution, construction and reform, a united patriotic front has formed under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, broadly composed of various democratic parties and people’s organizations, including all workers under socialism, those who advance the socialist cause, all patriots who uphold socialism, and all patriots who stand for reunification of the motherland and are committed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This united front will continue to strengthen and develop.
The newly amended Constitution of the People’s Republic of China additionally added the sentence in paragraph 2 of Article 1 providing that “the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential characteristic of Socialism with Chinese characteristics”
It can be seen from all the texts that by way of listing the roles and importance of the Communist Party of China in the Constitution which has the highest legal authority, the status of the Communist Party of China as the ruling party is extremely stable. As the ruling party, the Communist Party of China must have its own armed forces and organs of violence, considering that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is formed and developed by the Communist Party of China, and the highest military organ of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is the Central military Commission, thus, the principle of “The Party commands the gun” must be secured.
Besides, the leadership of the Communist Party of China in China shall not be limited to the field of military, it shall include all areas of national issues, especially administrative areas. Thus, if the national President, being as the supreme head of the sovereignty and the representative of a State managing the administrative issues of the nation, may also take the position of the leader of the Communist Party of China, it may be the optimal system design for consolidating the overall leadership position of the Communist Party of China.