Xi suffered during the "Cultural Revolution," so he must honestly believe this system won't progress to the same ugly state; but how that sort of mission creep

Xi suffered during the "Cultural Revolution," so he must honestly believe this system won't progress to the same ugly state; but how that sort of mission creep could be prevented over decades hasn't been mentioned (to my knowledge) and may never even have been discussed. Perhaps Xi sees the period of the Cultural Revolution as a time when there was an absence of sufficient bureaucracy, and is therefore predisposed to view red tape (pardon the pun), control and rigidly-defined rule systems quite favorably, therefore. To him, highly-defined systems of control may seem to be the opposite of oppression since they eliminate anarchy (of the kind he experienced back then.) But rules systems can end up being highly arbitrary too, of course, especially over time. A sufficiently convoluted bureaucratic system bluntly or sloppily implemented can be anarchic (random) in its effects. Witness the Canadian policy of refusing to allow babies to board airplanes if they have the same name as someone on the "no fly list," since the rules don't make an explicit exception for babies.