Jiang Steps Down, Hu To Step In
(Press Trust of India | Beijing | November 14, 2002)
Paving the way for younger generation to take up the reins of China's Communist Party, President Jiang Zemin and five other top leaders stepped down leaving vice-president Hun Jintao as the only politburo member to be re-elected as its 300-plus Central Committee here today.
The 59-year-old Mr. Hu, first top leader of China whose party career began after the Communists took over in 1949, is widely expected to take over from Mr Zemin as the party head when the Central Committee meets tomorrow and also as President of the world's most populous nation and Asia's fastest growing economy in March.
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