![\"\"](\"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1.png\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHow is Xi different from previous leaders in China?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nXi is personally modest. \u2018The Party\u2019s Interests Come First\u2019 is the Xi family slogan engraved on his father\u2019s tomb. He rarely, if ever, talks about himself in the first person. Nonetheless, he\u2019s presided over the most intense personification of authority in decades. Yet this has happened incrementally, accompanied by purges of the supposedly corrupt and helped by the absence of rivals. It\u2019s hard to think of another figure in Chinese politics to match his stature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How can we understand Xi\u2019s motivations? What can British businesses do to thrive in China under Xi\u2019s leadership?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nParty training teaches cadres to exploit opportunities and to be active and dynamic when the chance arises to advance the revolution. Xi is a dedicated Marxist-Leninist who has doubled down on the party as an agent of change as well as an instrument of governance. It\u2019s really important for businesses in China to have somebody on board who has studied Marxism-Leninism because it is their counterpart\u2019s school of management. A good starting point is the vintage work by the Jesuit China-watcher L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lad\u00e1ny The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985: A Self-Portrait (1988), <\/em>which tells the story through the party\u2019s own documents. Since the late period includes the formative years of Xi as a cadre, it repays study. What does this mean for the West? It means that Xi\u2019s new China will seize advantage where it can, and the party\u2019s ability to concentrate resources at scale is already transforming industries like EVs. This is a formidable power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Party training teaches cadres to exploit opportunities and to be active and dynamic when the chance arises to advance the revolution. Xi is a dedicated Marxist-Leninist who has doubled down on the party as an agent of change as well as an instrument of governance. It\u2019s really important for businesses in China to have somebody on board who has studied Marxism-Leninism because it is their counterpart\u2019s school of management. A good starting point is the vintage work by the Jesuit China-watcher L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lad\u00e1ny The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985: A Self-Portrait (1988), <\/em>which tells the story through the party\u2019s own documents. Since the late period includes the formative years of Xi as a cadre, it repays study. What does this mean for the West? It means that Xi\u2019s new China will seize advantage where it can, and the party\u2019s ability to concentrate resources at scale is already transforming industries like EVs. This is a formidable power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n