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Why Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants more technocrats in key roles
- Analyst believe this year’s leadership shake-up will see more cadres with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics taking on key roles
- Xi has major ambitions for Chinese technological advance and hopes picking figures with right experience will help make them a reality
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The Communist Party of China will undergo a major leadership shake-up at its party congress in the second half of 2022. In this series, the South China Morning Post looks at what the party’s next generation of leaders might look like.
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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 to come.
Moreover, they said that many technocrats – who have a background in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) – 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.
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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.
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