In 2015. He Yiting, a vice-chairman of the CCP CC Central Party School, was tasked to research and define Xi Jinping’s approach to governing the country and put it in a digestible form for 90 million members of the party’s rank and file to absorb and apply. The task took two years. A veteran of three presidents, He Yiting was a seasoned expert on ideology and propaganda and had spent 24 years at the Central Policy Research Office, where he worked with others as a national policy adviser and chief speech-writer. He was also as a trusted aide of President Xi Jinping. He was aided in his two-year task by nine other academics from the Central Party School. A Xinhua report said as soon as the mission was given to the school, it became the institution’s main focus "and formed a panel of 10 elite scholars for it immediately.” The panel of political ghostwriters came from various generations, ranging from academics in their 30s to scholars in their 80s and was part of a broader project called “Marxist theory study and construction”, dedicated to cataloguing the party’s jargon. One of the advisers on the project, Cao Zhenghai, a communication specialist, died this year aged 58 before the project was completed. Another was journalist-turned-cadre Xu Guangchun. Xu Guangchun was the party’s spokesman for the national party congress in 1997 and rose to be the party chief of Henan province. The panel was also behind a widely promoted book that detailed the Xi’s seven years of hard labour during the Cultural Revolution.