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Various media outlets and prominent news agencies including PTI are reporting that China’s ruling Communist Party is set to slide back to its founder Mao Zedong’s era soon as President Xi Jinping is set to break the decades-old 10-year term rule to  remain in power for life.

On Sunday, 2,296 delegates “elected” under the ideological parameters set by 69-year-old Xi, will attend the carefully-choreographed Communist Party’s once-in-a-five-year Congress which is widely expected to endorse his continuation in power.

The meeting of the CPP’s Congress is an in-camera meeting. The outcome of voting is expected to end two very strict five-year term limits followed by Xi’s predecessors to avert the danger of the one party state becoming a country with a single leader dominating the political scene.