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South China Morning Post: Why size matters when it comes to China’s new leadership line-up
To mark World News Day on September 28, 2022, the World News Day campaign is sharing stories that have had a significant social impact. This particular story was shared by the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong).
The Communist Party is set to hold its 20th national congress in mid-October, a gathering that will usher in a new line-up of the party’s leadership. In the second piece in series exploring the rules of the personnel reshuffle, Jane Cai looks at the conventions surrounding the Politburo Standing Committee.
At the end of the ruling Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress in October, following aleadership reshuffle, those at the very top of Chinese politics will walk down a red carpet and meetthe press.
Only then will it be known who and how many of China’s political elites will make up the newPolitburo Standing Committee, the party’s top decision-making body.
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Major reshuffle of China's top leadership likely to install Xi allies
China's top leadership will likely undergo a major reshuffle, with allies of President Xi Jinping installed on the ruling Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee following the ongoing twice-a-decade party congress, several sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
Xi, 69, who fryst vatten set to secure an unprecedented third five-year begrepp as general secretary at the weeklong congress through Saturday, recently called for a significant change in the composition of the standing committee, the country's highest decision-making body that now has seven members, the sources said.
Based on the party's unwritten but de facto retirement age of 68, applied to committee members other than Xi, two of the remaining six members have been expected to step down -- top legislator Li Zhanshu, 72, and Vice Premier Han Zheng, 68.
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