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Today, China plays an extremely important role in many political, economic and cultural processes in the region of East Asia. According to the Forbes List “Powerful People 2018”, the PRC President Xi Jinping has become the most powerful political leader in the world. The political program of Xi Jinping has being formed progressively: firstly, it was ‘Chinese Dream’, then ‘One Belt One Road’, ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era’ and etc. Every new political idea, concept or initiative were proclaimed in his speeches. In this regard, linguistic analyses of speeches of President of the PRC gives us detailed answers on questions concerning the position of China on many international problems and economic issues. Of course, linguistic analyses of the political discourse includes semantic, syntactic, lexicological and phraseological aspects. In this paper the author focuses on phraseological analyses and takes into account Chinese idiomatic expressions – chengyu (成语). Analyses of all speeches which were included in two volumes “The Governance of China” shows that one of the vivid features of contemporary political discourse is frequent use of chengyu. The majority of chengyu in the speeches reveals subtext and implicit meanings of Chinese political discourse. The author also raises problems of comparative perspectives of interpretation of political discourse’s chengyu in two languages – Russian and English.