The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held only every five years, has amended the party constitution to more deeply reflect the ideology of President Xi Jinping and enshrine his leadership role. Some 2,300 delegates of the party that rules the country of 1.4 billion people adopted the amendments at the end of the week-long congress in Beijing on Saturday. Xi, 69, has been general secretary of China’s Communist Party since 2012. His position as “the core of the party” as well as his political thought had helped the party to overcome the country’s contradictions and problems, acc…