I hate when people insist Xi is an evil dictator who doesn't really care about people and is just saying stuff like this. The ideology of the CPC is laid down in stone and you don't get to the top position in an ideological organization without having being a true believer in the ideology.
Its as stupid as saying the head of Greenpeace doesn't want to save the environment, the head of PETA is on a carnivore diet, or that the grand wizard of the KKK isn't really an anti-Semite white supremacist.
Liberals are so used to leaders who lie and they can't even conceive of a politician who's ideology isn't "make rich people richer." They don't even see that as ideology they think "Freedom and democracy" is ideology.