Beijing: China on Sunday said the decision to scrap two-term limit for President Xi Jinping is essential for upholding the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The party’s powerful Central Committee last month passed a proposal to remove the two-term cap on Chinese presidency - a move that has startled the world. China`s revered leader Deng Xiaoping in 1980 had restricted the presidential five-year tenure to two to avoid the perils which the cult around Mao Zedong had brought.