Jiang Sure To Retire
(Reuters | Beijing | November 13, 2002)
Delegates to Chinas Communist Party Congress ended months of speculation today, confirming that Mr Jiang Zemin would step down as Party Chief and make way for a new generation of leaders this week.
Five other leaders, including Parliament Chief Li Peng and Premier Zhu Rongji, would also retire from the seven-man Politburo Standing Committee in the first peaceful and orderly succession in the history of Communist China, they said.
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