BEIJING, Nov 14: China’s ruling Communist Party today unveiled a new generation of younger leadership, including Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, as members of the key Central Committee to lead the world’s largest political party and the second largest economy in the next decade.
The 18th CPC Central Committee will in turn elect the Politburo, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and the General Secretary of the party at its first plenary session here tomorrow.
The week-long 18th Party Congress, which concluded its in-camera session at Beijing’s cavernous Great Hall of the People also passed resolutions on the report of the 17th CPC Central Committee, the work report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and a key amendment to the CPC Constitution.
“The congress elected a new central committee of the Party and replaced older leaders with younger ones,” the CPC General Secretary and Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a closing address to 2,307 delegates.
“We are convinced that all the decisions and plans adopted and all the achievements made at the Congress, which are of major current and far-reaching historical significance, will play an important role in guiding the all-around development of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the great new undertaking of Party building,” he said.
The Central Committee is the highest working body in the CPC, whose most members are leading figures of the party, government and army. The Central Committee, which has over 370 members, will tomorrow elect the politburo and its standing committee. (PTI)
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