Xi Jinping Secures Unprecedented 3rd Term as CCP Leader

China's leader Xi Jinping (front) walks with members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, as they meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 23, 2022. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will remain in power for an unprecedented third five-year term, breaking a two-term norm set by his predecessors.

Xi, 69, will be the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) until at least 2028.