That China’s era of reform ended under Xi Jinping is hardly surprising. What may surprise many people is that Xi himself keeps saying it. On July 1, at the celebration marking the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi said that through the “great practice of revolution, construction, reform, and the New Era,” the party led the people through untold hardships and successfully opened up and upheld the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. That sentence amounts to a declaration: China’s reform era has ended. That China’s era of reform ended under Xi Jinping is hardly surprising. What may surprise many people is that Xi himself keeps saying it. On July 1, at the celebration marking the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Par