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===United Front Work===

===United Front Work===

:{{See also|United Front Work Department}}

:{{See also|United Front Work Department}}

In 2015 Xi established a leading small group<ref>Leading small groups are powerful advisory bodies that formulate and help implement policies concerning particular topics, including coordination across Party and state bureaucracies. </ref> on United Front Work with himself at its head, signifying “a direct line of command from the [CCP] Politburo to [the] United Front,” according to the ''Financial Times''. Xi called United Front work “an important way to ensure the success of the [Chinese Communist] Party’s cause” and urged the CCP to form the “broadest possible patriotic United Front.”26 President Xi has also called United Front work a “magic weapon”.<ref>https://jamestown.org/program/united-front�work-department-magic-weapon-home-abroad/</ref>

In 2015 Xi established a leading small group<ref>Leading small groups are powerful advisory bodies that formulate and help implement policies concerning particular topics, including coordination across Party and state bureaucracies. </ref> on United Front Work with himself at its head, signifying “a direct line of command from the [CCP] Politburo to [the] United Front,” according to the ''Financial Times''. Xi called United Front work “an important way to ensure the success of the [Chinese Communist] Party’s cause” and urged the CCP to form the “broadest possible patriotic United Front.”26 President Xi has also called United Front work a “magic weapon”. The elevation of the importance of United Front work resulted in adding UFWD officials to top CCP and government posts and roughly 40,000 new cadres overall in the first few years after Xi became president.<ref>https://jamestown.org/program/united-front�work-department-magic-weapon-home-abroad/</ref>

===Military purges===

===Military purges===