Hu Jinato's China Fresh outlook
Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun have been elected Sunday morning into the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party's top decision-making body. More than 2,200 delegates elected 204 members and 167 alternate members of the 17th CPC Central Committee at the closing session of the 17th CPC National Congress.
Xi Jinping, 54,may succeed Vice President Zeng Qinghong and Li Keqiang, 52,may become the executive vice premier with responsibility for financial services, led the new members onto a stage at China's Great Hall of the People in Beijing, putting them in line for top central government positions when the country's rubber-stamp parliament meets in March.
Xi, who took over as Shanghai party chief in March after Chen Liangyu was fired for corruption, is a so-called ``princeling,'' the son of an army veteran and former vice premier.A chemical engineering graduate of Tsinghua, he was previously governor of Fujian province and party chief in Zhejiang province, bordering Shanghai.
Li, party chief of northeastern Liaoning province, has a law degree and an economics doctorate from Peking University. He's the son of a low-ranking government official. Some of his college contemporaries went on to become political dissidents and human-rights activists.
He Guoqiang, 64, and Zhou Yongkang, 65, are the other new top leaders.
China ruling Communist Party announced President Hu Jintao's leadership for his second five-year term on Monday, consolidating his position and names of his teams is in process of announcement, the two younger leaders to be given key posts and who could be next top slots for the China's head.
As is customary, the new central committee will hold its first plenary session the following day of the conclusion of the Party congress.
According to the CPC Constitution, the plenum elects the central committee's general secretary, members and alternate members of its political bureau, and members of the political bureau standing committee. The general secretary shall be chosen from political bureau standing committee members.
Delegates to the congress said the reshuffle will help inject new vitality into the leadership that will lead the Chinese people in carrying forward the country's reform and opening-up and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
Hu, 64, is reshuffling his team to tackle social unrest caused by corruption and pollution in the world's fastest- growing major economy.
Hu Jintao, is now general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president of the People's Republic of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission. Hu Jintao, a native of Jixi, Anhui Province, was born in December 1942. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1964 and began to work in July 1965 after he graduated from the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, where he had a major in the study of hub hydropower stations. He is an engineer.
Hu began to work at the grassroots in west China's Gansu Province in 1968 and stayed there until 1982 when he became a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee and president of the All-China Youth Federation.
Beginning in 1985, he was appointed, successively, secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee.
In 1992, 49-year-old Hu was elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenum of the 14th CPC Central Committee, which was then widely considered as an important step the CPC had taken toward generational transition of the central leadership.
From 1993 to the end of 2002, Hu was concurrently president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, which has been the training base for senior CPC cadres and backbones of theoretical studies over the past 70 years.
In September 1997, Hu was re-elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenum of the 15th CPC Central Committee.
Hu became vice-president of China in March 1998 and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission in September 1999.
In November 2002, Hu was elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the 16th National Congress of the CPC.
In March 2003, He was elected president of China at the First Session of the 10th National People's Congress, the top legislature of the country.
Hu and his wife Liu Yongqing were schoolmates at Qinghua University. The couple have a son and a daughter, who are also graduates of Qinghua University.
Xi Jinping, 54,may succeed Vice President Zeng Qinghong and Li Keqiang, 52,may become the executive vice premier with responsibility for financial services, led the new members onto a stage at China's Great Hall of the People in Beijing, putting them in line for top central government positions when the country's rubber-stamp parliament meets in March.
Xi, who took over as Shanghai party chief in March after Chen Liangyu was fired for corruption, is a so-called ``princeling,'' the son of an army veteran and former vice premier.A chemical engineering graduate of Tsinghua, he was previously governor of Fujian province and party chief in Zhejiang province, bordering Shanghai.
Li, party chief of northeastern Liaoning province, has a law degree and an economics doctorate from Peking University. He's the son of a low-ranking government official. Some of his college contemporaries went on to become political dissidents and human-rights activists.
He Guoqiang, 64, and Zhou Yongkang, 65, are the other new top leaders.
China ruling Communist Party announced President Hu Jintao's leadership for his second five-year term on Monday, consolidating his position and names of his teams is in process of announcement, the two younger leaders to be given key posts and who could be next top slots for the China's head.
As is customary, the new central committee will hold its first plenary session the following day of the conclusion of the Party congress.
According to the CPC Constitution, the plenum elects the central committee's general secretary, members and alternate members of its political bureau, and members of the political bureau standing committee. The general secretary shall be chosen from political bureau standing committee members.
Delegates to the congress said the reshuffle will help inject new vitality into the leadership that will lead the Chinese people in carrying forward the country's reform and opening-up and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
Hu, 64, is reshuffling his team to tackle social unrest caused by corruption and pollution in the world's fastest- growing major economy.
Hu Jintao, is now general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president of the People's Republic of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission. Hu Jintao, a native of Jixi, Anhui Province, was born in December 1942. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1964 and began to work in July 1965 after he graduated from the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, where he had a major in the study of hub hydropower stations. He is an engineer.
Hu began to work at the grassroots in west China's Gansu Province in 1968 and stayed there until 1982 when he became a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee and president of the All-China Youth Federation.
Beginning in 1985, he was appointed, successively, secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee.
In 1992, 49-year-old Hu was elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenum of the 14th CPC Central Committee, which was then widely considered as an important step the CPC had taken toward generational transition of the central leadership.
From 1993 to the end of 2002, Hu was concurrently president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, which has been the training base for senior CPC cadres and backbones of theoretical studies over the past 70 years.
In September 1997, Hu was re-elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenum of the 15th CPC Central Committee.
Hu became vice-president of China in March 1998 and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission in September 1999.
In November 2002, Hu was elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the 16th National Congress of the CPC.
In March 2003, He was elected president of China at the First Session of the 10th National People's Congress, the top legislature of the country.
Hu and his wife Liu Yongqing were schoolmates at Qinghua University. The couple have a son and a daughter, who are also graduates of Qinghua University.
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