Xi Jinping's Lightning Constitutional Amendment
On February 25, 2018, Xinhua News Agency suddenly released the CCP Central Committee's constitutional amendment proposal dated January 26, in which Article 14 deleted the provision of Article 79 of the Constitution that the President and Vice President "shall not serve more than two consecutive terms." There had been no public discussion beforehand, and two weeks later, on March 11, the National People's Congress voted to pass it.