
General Secretary of the Communist Party; President of China China
Conservative
National rejuvenation on a timetable: the Party leads everything, the private sector serves the state’s tech priorities, and Taiwan is non-negotiable.
Community poll — liberal or conservative?
Appeared in close to 600 front-page headlines in the People’s Daily in 2025 — more than three times Premier Li Qiang — despite a 21% drop from 2024 levels.
Their companies needed to innovate, grow and remain confident despite China's economic challenges, which he described as 'temporary' and 'localised'.
Source: BBC ↗Hosted a symposium attended by Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei, DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng, BYD’s Wang Chuanfu, Xiaomi’s Lei Jun and Tencent’s Pony Ma — the first such gathering focused on private enterprises since 2018.
Source: Reuters ↗The rest of the record — every position, the goals behind them, and where a newer stance sits awkwardly with an older one — is on the details page.