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The author discusses the problems of syntactic deformation of traditional Chinese phraseological sets chengyu (成语) in the frameworks of modern socio-political discourse of the Chinese language. The analysis of syntax and lexical features of the political speeches of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping has showed that phraseological expressions chengyu becomes one of the special characteristics of the modern socio-political discourse. The quantitative characteristics of usage of chengyu in the frameworks of speeches of these political leaders was growing up in the diachronic aspect. Moreover, the chengyu easily fits in the syntax of modern Chinese text, using such grammatical structures as 地, 得 and 的 and others. On the material of political discourse the author has offered different models of grammaticalization of phraseological sets in the modern text. All the chengyu for the linguistic analyses were chosen from I Ching tradition, so the link between origins of traditional Chinese thought and philosophy with the modern political discourse of PRC has developed in this study. Thus, the syntactic integration of classical and modern Chinese language was revealed during the study as well. The author also has found out a lot of examples of syntactic deformation of chengyu on the material of the political speeches of Chinese leaders, that proved the main idea of the research. The article may have a particular scientific significance in the linguistic field of study, as in the linguocultural studies.