In fact, I will make a rather radical statement. Call it copium if you want.
Xi's real term as president begins tomorrow
2012 until the 19th Party Congress was a shitshow with Xi having to clean up the mess which basically stopped him from effectively enacting his vision.
After 19th Party Congress, Xi got more power but then he had to deal with the shitshow of the Trumpian Trade War which alongside local opposition basically stopped at its tracks a lot of Xi's policies.
So for me personally, Xi's full power presidency begins today. People say that he had a 10 year ruling period. In reality, 5 years of anticorruption, 3 (currently diminished) years of Trade War, 2 years of Covid.
We have never actually had the opportunity to see Xi's complete vision enacted at the policy level