supposedly he was to step down in the next party congress 2 years from now, but obviously with the rules changes most people seem to assume he would stay on, but there's also nothing in there that says he must stay on either. Eitherway he's born in the 50s, he was already well into his 20s when Mao died, I think it's fair to say his world view is very different from say, a random Chinese who's in his early 30s now after a few years in the US.