The Chinese Communist party pulled the curtain down on its 18th Congress yesterday with the election of a new Central Committee, setting the stage for the long-awaited unveiling of its new leaders today.
State media said the 10 leading candidates for the Politburo Standing Committee, the small group at the pinnacle of political power in China, had been elected to the 205-member Central Committee.
Xi Jinping, who is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as party general secretary today and as president in March, led the list of Central Committee members, which included Li Keqiang, the man seen as successor to Wen Jiabao, premier.
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