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New
"cadres"
The People's Congress in China is setting the
leadership for the People's Republic for the next several decades.
New "
cadres" are elevated to the various organisations that guide
the Communist Party, with the best making their way to the the
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress which contains
about 150 members and the first among equals rising to their positions
within the Politburo, from which the President and the Prime Minister
are most commonly named. This year the media in China is focusing
not upon the President and Prime Minister, who almost certainly
will remain Mr. Hu Jintao and Mr. Wen Jiabao respectively, with
Mr. Hu the absolute head of the Party and the government, but is
focusing instead upon the young men being elevated to the Standing
Committee and perhaps to the Politburo.The
two names at the top are Mr. Li Keqiang, 52 years old, and Mr.
Xi Jinping. Mr. Li was born in July 1955 and joined the Communist
Party in 1976. He holds a bachelor's degree in law and a doctoral
degree in economics obtained from his on-the-job postgraduate study
at the School of Economics of Peking University (PKU) from 1988
to 1995. Mr. Li was the party head in Liaoning province in China's
northeast, and also the Governor of Henan Province, which is China's
most populace province and its most productive agricultural province
[Ed. Note: Henan province, in China's very centre, has a population
of nearly 95 million, which would make it the 11th most populace
country in the world, just ahead of Germany, were it a sovereign
state.]. Mr. Li has long been involved with the Communist Youth
League, and it is there that he maintains his base of support.
Mr. Xi is Han and is a native of Fuping, Shaanxi Province, born
in 1953. He joined the Communist Youth League in 1971 and joined
the Communist Party in 1974. In 1999 he was elected vice-governor
of Fujian province, then governor a year later. In 2002 he took
up senior government and Party positions in Zhejinag Province.
Xi Jinping was an alternate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee
and is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee. In 2007 he became
secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee. We could find
no record of Mr. Xi's education background, although we know that
his father was purged several times from the Party by Mao himself.
Mr. Xi is less nationally known that his wife, Peng Liyuan, who
is a nationally recognised singer with the PLA General Political
Department's song and dance troupe... a position of some reknown
in China. Mr. Xi is also well known to US Treasury Sec'y Paulson,
who visited Mr. Xi during the latter's tenure in Zhejinag province.
Commentary
from Dennis Garthman /10 18 07
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