The 240+ Topics Xi Jinping Has “Pointed The Way Forward” On

Amongst Xi Jinping’s many Celebration-bestowed titles and tons of of banned netizen nicknames is one which factors to his penchant for claiming private management over and perception into seemingly all the pieces: “Compass-in-Chief.” The nickname derives from a normal Celebration formulation that holds that Xi has “pointed the way in which ahead” on an unlimited array of coverage points. (For extra on the phrase, see CDT’s twentieth Anniversary Version Lexicon.) The breadth of matters which Xi has claimed to “level the way in which ahead” on, and the frequency of the formulation’s use, has turned the phrase into an object of satire—thus the nickname. The nickname is taken into account a delicate phrase, topic to censorship. A protracted-running literary journal was abruptly shuttered in December 2023 after its cowl, which featured a suited hand pointing as miniature faceless lots tumble off a cliff, was interpreted as a riff on the nickname.

Not too long ago, the influential X (previously Twitter) account “Trainer Li is Not Your Trainer” shared a compilation of matters on which Xi has “pointed the way in which ahead” since 2015. The compilation, republished by CDT editors, is derived from articles printed by Individuals’s Each day and Xinhua. The non-exhaustive record finds that Xi has “pointed the way in which ahead” on over 240 matters. They vary from the grandiose (“humanity’s future improvement”) to the Celebration’s political issues (“full implementation of the spirit of the twentieth Nationwide Celebration Congress”) to the nitty-gritty of governance (“agricultural supply-side reform”). CDT has translated the record in its totality. Up to now, Xi Jinping has pointed the way in which ahead on:

• the inventory market’s future improvement (November 12, 2015) 
• the personal economic system (March 6, 2016)
• administration of “Netizens’ Messages” (April 19, 2016)
• the longer term improvement of China’s web (April 22, 2016)
• restructuring the Northeast (Could 25, 2016) 
• agricultural supply-side reform (Could 27, 2016) 
• charting a path for the worldwide economic system (September 6, 2016)
• instructional reform (September 25, 2016)
• comprehensively deepening reforms (December 28, 2016)
• comprehensively deepening reforms primarily based on current traits (April 16, 2017)
• Chinese language youth (Could 2, 2017) 
• the distribution of medical and academic assets in Xiong’an New District (Could 3, 2017) 
• Hong Kong’s future improvement (July 2, 2017) 
• selling the implementation of the wonderful “One Nation, Two Techniques” (July 2, 2017) 
• the wholesome improvement of China’s monetary sector (July 19, 2017)
• resolving unemployment points (November 28, 2017) 
• progressing from a “cyber nice energy” to a “digital China” (April 18, 2018) 
• the event of the Yangtze River Financial Belt (April 27, 2018)
• gifted people in science and know-how (Could 28, 2018)
• the “vanguard” of scientific and technological innovation (Could 28, 2018)
• the event of the Shanghai Cooperation Group (SCO) (Could 30, 2018)
• great-power diplomacy with Chinese language traits (June 22, 2018) 
• Communist Youth League work (July 9, 2018) 
• state-owned enterprise reform (October 13, 2018)
• New Period Reform and Opening (December 14, 2018)
• the event of cross-Strait relations within the New Period (January 3, 2019)
• the development of cadres (January 21, 2019) 
• high-quality improvement of the Belt and Street Initiative (April 26, 2019) 
• the creation of a modern-day “Dwelling within the Fuchun Mountains” (June 4, 2019)
• the development of the Celebration’s inside political tradition within the New Period (July 30, 2019) 
• the event of China and the world (August 5, 2019)
• Macau (December 21, 2019)
• establishing a “civil protection line” (April 15, 2020)
• modern our on-line world work (April 20, 2020) 
• cultural and natural-heritage preservation work (June 12, 2020)
• Sino-European relations within the “post-pandemic period” (June 23, 2020)
• the maritime economic system (July 12, 2020)
• how the Chinese language economic system will “climate the storm” (July 22, 2020)
• accelerating the development of a greater Anhui (August 22, 2020)
• the event of Tibet within the New Period (August 28, 2020) 
• responding to world challenges (September 9, 2020)
• innovation in science and know-how (September 14, 2020)
• the way forward for the United Nations (September 22, 2020)
• creating archaeology with Chinese language traits (September 30, 2020)
• China’s realization of high-quality improvement (November 8, 2020) 
• reshaping the world within the post-pandemic period (November 24, 2020)
• Chinese language financial improvement (December 18, 2020)
• the promotion of people-centric new-style urbanization (December 30, 2020)
• constructing a greater world (January 7, 2021) 
• the event of the web and info-tech trade (January 28, 2021) 
• cooperation between China and Central and Japanese European nations (February 9, 2021)
• public well being and hygiene work within the New Period (March 9, 2021) 
• technological innovation (March 16, 2021)
• the way forward for humanity (April 21, 2021)
• the promotion of top quality improvement within the subsequent part of the South-to-North Water Diversion Mission (Could 16, 2021) 
• the long-term improvement of Sino-Russian relations (July 1, 2021) 
• the grand new undertaking of Celebration constructing (July 1, 2021) 
• the longer term improvement of the Asia-Pacific area (July 16, 2021) 
• Tibet’s improvement within the New Period (July 16, 2021) 
• attaining the centenary targets of the Individuals’s Liberation Military (PLA) (July 30, 2021)
• the creation of a system of inside Celebration guidelines and laws within the New Period (August 11, 2021) 
• doing job of “ethnic-minority work” within the New Period (August 28, 2021) 
• turning into an important sports activities energy (September 15, 2021) 
• unity in combating the pandemic  (September 23, 2021) 
• administration of human expertise within the New Period (September 23, 2021) 
• pioneering a brand new journey for humankind’s high-level improvement (October 12, 2021) 
• the collective creation of a standard group of life on earth (October 12, 2021) 
• conducting Taiwan work properly within the New Period (October 13, 2021) 
• the event and perfection of the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress (NPC) system and NPC work within the New Period (October 15, 2021) 
• cybersecurity (October 17, 2021) 
• the right way to pioneer a brand new journey for humankind’s high-level improvement (October 19, 2021) 
• “What has develop into of the world?” “What are we to do?” [The General Secretary pointed the way] (October 25, 2021) 
• responding to the local weather problem (November 3, 2021) 
• persisting in technological self-reliance and self-improvement (November 3, 2021) 
• forging our nation’s cutting-edge technological expertise (November 3, 2021)
• a globally inspiring diplomatic philosophy (November 7, 2021) 
• China-Africa cooperation within the New Period (December 3, 2021)
• the creation of rule of legislation in China (December 3, 2021) 
• selling cooperative world improvement (December 6, 2021) 
• balancing pandemic prevention and socio-economic improvement (March 20, 2022) 
• scientific and exact epidemic prevention (April 14, 2022)
• establishing a stable basis for nationwide safety (April 15, 2022)
• Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization for sustainable improvement (April 22, 2022) 
• extricating the world from its present predicament (April 22, 2022) 
• technological self-reliance and self-improvement and turning into an important technological energy (Could 6, 2022) 
• the event of cultural and historic museums (Could 18, 2022)
• selling peaceable improvement in Asia and the world (Could 21, 2022) 
• selling the event of public safety organs within the New Period (Could 26, 2022) 
• turning into nearer to the folks by strengthening and reforming petitioning work (Could 27, 2022) 
• the right way to deepen analysis into the historical past of Chinese language civilization (Could 29, 2022) 
• world improvement (June 25, 2022)
• the event of Mt. Wuyi’s tea trade [Mt. Wuyi, Fujian province] (June 28, 2022)
• authorities work by the brand new Hong Kong S.A.R. administration (July 3, 2022)
• greedy the historic alternative supplied by the data revolution (July 13, 2022) 
• governing Xinjiang within the New Period (July 17, 2022) 
• pandemic prevention in Africa (July 22, 2022) 
• cultural improvement within the New Period (August 1, 2022) 
• sustaining world peace (August 26, 2022) 
• nationwide scientific and technological improvement (September 12, 2022) 
• forging a brand new path for country-to-country exchanges (September 25, 2022) 
• fixing world safety dilemmas (October 13, 2022) 
• human progress and improvement (October 18, 2022) 
• human society’s path in the direction of peace and prosperity (October 29, 2022)
• the event of charitable giving (November 9, 2022) 
• the trail to world digital improvement (November 10, 2022) 
• Sino-American relations (November 15, 2022) 
• opening a brand new chapter in Asia-Pacific cooperation (November 17, 2022) 
• preserving and celebrating the wonderful custom of the Individuals’s Military and strengthening honorary navy commendations work within the New Period (November 29, 2022) 
• comprehensively selling rural revitalization and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization within the New Period (December 1, 2022) 
• bettering bi-lateral relations and setting the path for the subsequent part in Sino-Australian relations (December 9, 2022) 
• world biodiversity governance (December 17, 2022) 
• improvement of transportation within the New Period (January 21, 2023) 
• charting a brand new path for accounting and auditing work within the New Period (January 25, 2023) 
• full implementation of the spirit of the twentieth Nationwide Celebration Congress (February 4, 2023) 
• higher promotion of Chinese language-style modernization (February 7, 2023)
• Chinese language financial improvement (February 10, 2023) 
• growing into a serious agricultural energy (February 20, 2023)
• resolving the problem of “bottlenecks” (February 21, 2023) 
• progress on the “Three Rural Points” [agricultural production, rural development, and farmers’ incomes] (March 3, 2023) 
• high-quality improvement and the wholesome improvement of the personal economic system (March 7, 2023) 
• nationwide protection and navy building (March 10, 2023) 
• cadres selling rural building (March 21, 2023) 
• safety of the Yellow River within the New Period, and remodeling improvement in river basin provinces and areas (March 31, 2023)
• “character-building by training” (April 14, 2023)
• the right path towards human progress and improvement (April 18, 2023)
• summiting the height of aerospace know-how (April 24, 2023) 
• digital infrastructure building (April 27, 2023)
• doing the Celebration’s youth work properly on a brand new path within the New Period (Could 7, 2023) 
• abroad Chinese language affairs work (Could 10, 2023)
• selling the financial integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei (Could 13 2023) 
• cooperation between China and Central Asia (Could 21, 2023) 
• the event of Chinese language manufacturing, significantly high-end manufacturing (Could 22, 2023) 
• preserving systemic views throughout analysis and examine journeys (Could 24, 2023) 
• promising developments in boards, technological innovation, and worldwide cooperation and change (Could 26, 2023) 
• accelerating the conclusion of high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement (Could 29, 2023) 
• fostering main improvement and prosperity in Chinese language arts and literature (Could 29, 2023) 
• world financial improvement (June 2, 2023) 
• endeavoring to construct a contemporary Chinese language civilization (June 4, 2023) 
• high-quality improvement in Interior Mongolia (June 10, 2023) 
• endeavoring to create a brand new tradition match for our present period (June 15, 2023) 
• ecological building (June 21, 2023) 
• doing improvement work properly (June 22, 2023) 
• mastering the “main process” (July 7, 2023) 
• Celebration constructing and organizing work (July 10, 2023) 
• the event of the China-Solomon Islands relationship (July 13, 2023) 
• greedy the historic alternative of the data revolution (July 13, 2023)
• accelerating and selling China’s rise to a serious cyber-power (July 15, 2023) 
• doing our on-line world administration work properly on a brand new path within the New Period (July 21, 2023) 
• selling high-quality improvement within the Yangtze River Financial Belt (July 28, 2023) 
• improvement of Sino-Georgian relations within the New Period (August 1, 2023) 
• China and Malaysia’s joint creation of a group with a shared future (August 15, 2023) 
• wetlands safety work (August 15, 2023) 
• wholesome improvement of the unreal intelligence trade (August 16, 2023) 
• an intensive overhaul of Celebration propaganda and beliefs work for the New Period, whereas sustaining innovation and an accurate orientation (August 19, 2023) 
• improvement of Sino-American relations (August 23, 2023) 
• deepening unity and cooperation between nations, dealing with dangers and challenges, and dealing collectively to create a greater world (August 24, 2023) 
• additional growing Sino-South Africa relations (August 24, 2023) 
• deepening cooperation between China and Bangladesh (August 24, 2023) 
• becoming a member of forces to realize world frequent improvement (August 26, 2023) 
• doing the Celebration’s abroad Chinese language work properly within the New Period (August 31, 2023) 
• laying a complete basis for meals safety (September 1, 2023) 
• nurturing human expertise within the New Period (September 1, 2023) 
• high-quality improvement of the commerce in companies (September 4, 2023) 
• the event of “good” industries (September 6, 2023) 
• the event of Longjiang (September 8, 2023) 
• opening new floor for improvement within the North (September 11, 2023) 
• technological change and cooperation (September 11, 2023) 
• accelerating and selling China’s progress as an important cyber-power (September 14, 2023) 
• high-level improvement of China-Singapore relations (September 14, 2023) 
• the Common Workplace of the State Council performing its work work properly on a brand new path (September 14, 2023) 
• guiding China-Europe railways in the direction of safer, higher-quality, extra environment friendly improvement (September 16, 2023) 
• the longer term improvement of pleasant relations between China and Indonesia (September 16, 2023) 
• solidifying cultural confidence, assuming the mission of making a brand new tradition for a New Period, resolutely selling fashionable Chinese language tradition, and turning into a Socialist cultural energy (September 20, 2023) 
• a brand new path towards the excellent building of a contemporary Socialist nation, whereas preserving cultural traditions (September 20, 2023) 
• selling new-style industrialization (September 25, 2023) 
• innovating and growing the New Period Fengqiao Expertise (September 27, 2023)
• establishing higher-level free commerce pilot zones (September 27, 2023) 
• doing ladies and youngsters’s work properly (September 28, 2023) 
• an idea of constructing a group with a shared future for humankind that conforms to the instances and units the path for bettering world governance (September 30, 2023) 
• selling world peace and improvement (October 1, 2023) 
• deepening China-Arab cooperation and exchanges on publishing (October 3, 2023) 
• doing poverty alleviation work properly (October 6, 2023) 
• bettering propaganda, ideology, and cultural work (October 9, 2023) 
• revolutionary developments on unions and the labor motion within the New Period (October 9, 2023) 
• making a group with a shared future and furthering the event of bilateral relations between China and Uzbekistan (October 9, 2023) 
• commerce union work (October 10, 2023) 
• doing the Celebration’s youngsters’s work properly and selling the event of kids’s causes within the New Period (October 12, 2023)
• selling the high-quality improvement of the Yangtze River Financial Belt (October 13, 2023) 
• doing our on-line world administration work properly on a brand new path within the New Period (October 15, 2023) 
• defending and selling Yangtze River tradition (October 15, 2023) 
• doing cadre training and coaching work properly within the New Period (October 16, 2023) 
• selling the event and welfare of disabled folks in China (October 18, 2023) 
• Pudong’s improvement (October 18, 2023) 
• the high-quality collective building of the Belt and Street Initiative (October 19, 2023) 
• persevering with ideological liberation and selling Reform and Opening (October 19, 2023) 
• China and the world becoming a member of palms to collectively obtain collective improvement and prosperity, and to pave the way in which for higher paths in the direction of world prosperity (October 19, 2023) 
• humanity’s future improvement (October 19, 2023) 
• future cooperation with Turkmenistan (October 20, 2023) 
• getting into a New Period of higher relations between China and Brazil (October 21, 2023)
• creating higher circumstances for New Period working class and labor organizations to contribute, innovate, and create (October 24, 2023) 
• proceed finishing up main tasks that profit the general scenario (October 24, 2023) 
• the event of girls’s causes and Ladies’s Federation work underneath new circumstances (October 31, 2023) 
• reworking world web governance methods (November 7, 2023) 
• the event of Sino-American relations (November 14, 2023) 
• world peace and improvement (November 21, 2023) 
• selling high-quality improvement in finance (November 30, 2023) 
• main the way in which in selling main breakthroughs within the integration of the Yangtze River Delta Area (December 2, 2023) 
• accelerating the conclusion of high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening (December 5, 2023 ) 
• the event of Hongkou township (December 9, 2023) 
• how China, as the most important growing nation, ought to coexist with the most important coalition of developed nations (December 9, 2023) 
• main the way in which in selling the high-quality improvement of China’s economic system (December 12, 2023) 
• constructing an impressive Guangxi with Socialism with Chinese language traits within the New Period (December 17, 2023) 
• the event of the Zhuang Autonomous Area (December 18, 2023) 
• efforts to additional deepen and solidify thematic training (December 19, 2023) 
• comprehensively advancing rural revitalization and customary prosperity (December 20, 2023) 
• the right path for the frequent improvement, long-term stability, and mutual studying from different civilizations (December 28, 2023) 
• managing tumultuous Sino-American relations (December 28, 2023) 
• overseas medical-aid work within the New Period (December 30, 2023) 
• the event of the Celebration’s mass organizations (December 31, 2023) 
• strengthening cultural confidence and sustaining cultural independence (January 11, 2024) 
• the New Period Individuals’s Police Drive to carry out their obligation and perform their mission (January 11, 2024) 
• selling the accelerated improvement of winter sports activities in China (January 15, 2024)
• making continued daring developments on the political and authorized frontlines (January 15, 2024) 
• the event of finance with Chinese language traits (January 17, 2024) 
• serving to many areas to remodel useful resource benefits into financial and aggressive benefits (January 17, 2024) 
• a multipolar world (January 19, 2024) 
• guarding in opposition to monetary dangers and safeguarding the monetary backside line (January 22, 2024) 
• the way forward for Sino-French relations (January 27, 2024) 
• higher preserving our historic and cultural heritage (January 30, 2024) 
• the entire Celebration participating in “thematic” training (February 3, 2024) 
• selling the excellent revitalization of rural areas (February 6, 2024) 
• endeavoring to construct a contemporary Chinese language civilization (February 7, 2024) 
• a shift in Xiamen’s developmental philosophy and methodology (February 21, 2024) 
• the financial integration of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei (February 26, 2024) 
• making strides in the direction of the strategic aim of turning into a serious cyber-power, constructing a contemporary socialist nation, and selling the nice rejuvenation of the Chinese language nation (February 27, 2024) 
• fixing the issues of pure useful resource improvement and vitality safety (March 3, 2024)
• strengthening the navy (March 5, 2024) 
• establishing rule by legislation in China (March 6, 2024) 
• for areas to develop “new productive forces” (March 7, 2024) 
• the high-quality improvement of personal enterprises (March 7, 2024) 
• breaking by the bottlenecks hindering the event of “new productive forces” (March 11, 2024) [Chinese]

Tony Hu and Cindy Carter contributed to this submit.