Runners And Riders For China's Top Jobs
Updated: 2:46pm UK, Wednesday 14 November 2012
By Mark Stone, China Correspondent
China's Communist Party is set to announce the names of the seven people who will rule the world's most populous nation.
So far the only certainties are that Xi Jinping will become president and Li Keqiang will be premier. The make up of the Standing Committee will have a bearing not just on the pace of reform within China itself but also on its relations with the outside world.
It is already clear that the frontrunners for the top jobs come from a more varied background than their predecessors.
:: Xi Jinping
Cautious Reformer
Training: Engineer
China's incoming president, 59-year-old Mr Xi has been quoted as saying the Communist Party must embrace political reform to stave off social and economic problems. His other main challenges will be maintaining China's economic growth, perhaps through boosting private business, and fighting corruption. The son of a Mao-era revolutionary, Mr Xi spent his teenage years living in a cave in Shaanxi province. He is married to folk singer Peng Liyuan, who some predict may be a more active First Lady than her predecessors and has already been involved in high profile health campaigns. His daughter is studying at Harvard under an assumed name.
:: Li Keqiang
Cautious Reformer
Training: Lawyer
Expected to take over from Wen Jiabao as premier, a role focused on economic matters, Mr Li, 57, counted political reformers among his friends at university before becoming a protégé of outgoing president Hu Jintao. The law graduate rose through the party ranks, acting as party chief in relatively poor provinces like Henan where he was criticised for his slow reaction to an HIV epidemic involving tainted blood. Mr Li speaks English and is married to an English literature professor. He is said to be keen on tennis.
:: Li Yuanchao
Reformer
Training: Mathematician
Mr Li, 62, is a 'princeling' - the son of an influential politician - who studied in the US and is seen as being reform-minded, having courted foreign investment and advocated reform of the party. He has served as party secretary of Nanjing city and Jiangsu province and more recently as head of the department which appoints officials to key posts. At the time of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, Li was a student at Beijing University. He was scrutinised by the conservative Party elders for his sympathy towards the incident. His son is a student at Yale. Along with Xi and Li Kequang, he has long been considered the most secure candidate for the committee though conservative elders have raised objections.
:: Zhang Dejiang
Conservative
Training: Economist
Previously a vice-premier, Mr Zhang, 65, is a North Korea-trained economist and is seen as a conservative. His hopes of making the top tier of Chinese politics were boosted when he was promoted to replace the disgraced Bo Xilai as party boss of the south-western metropolis of Chongqing after Bo and his wife Gu Kailai were implicated in the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
:: Wang Qishan
Financial Reformer
Training: Academic
Mr Wang, 64, is a former academic who became a protégé of ex-president Jiang Zemin. Much of his work has been on economic projects, including a stint as governor of the China Construction Bank. Seen as being good in a crisis, he was appointed mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis in 2003. He was described as 'bold' and as having a 'wicked sense of humour' by former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
::Yu Zhengsheng
Potential Reformer
Training: Military Engineer
Mr Yu, 67, is party boss in Shanghai, China's financial hub, a post he inherited from Xi Jinping in 2007. A former engineer specialising in designing missiles, his brother defected to the US in 1985, a political blow he managed to recover from. He has publicly branded the Cultural Revolution, in which six of his family members perished, a 'serious personal mistake' made by Mao Zedong. His age along with the controversy caused by his brother's defection may result in him missing out on a place on the Standing Committee. Some see the possible reduction in size of the committee from 9 to 7 as a convenient way of keeping Yu out of it.
:: Wang Yang
Reformer
Training: Scientist
The senior party figure in Guangdong, one of China's most prosperous regions, Mr Wang, 57, is seen as a reformer keen on more democracy within the party and more media freedom. His political career took off when, as mayor of Tongling, he was publicly praised by then Chinese leader and revolutionary veteran Deng Xiaoping. He is said to be a close ally of outgoing President Hu.
:: Zhang Gaoli
Financial Reformer
Training: Economist
Party chief of Tianjin province, Mr Zhang, 66, is an economist and statistician believed to lean towards pro-market policies. He was a champion of then-president Jiang Zemin's 'three represents' policy in 2000, which encouraged the private sector to play a greater role in China's economic development. He tends to be fairly low profile, his political career is seen as being fairly unremarkable and the public in Tianjin are said to consider him to be mundane.
:: Liu Yunshan
Conservative
Training: Academic
A former teacher, Mr Liu has served as director of the propaganda bureau since 2002. The 65-year-old spent his early career in Mongolia as a student, then working in for the state news agency as well as in Party propaganda. Since 2007 he has headed the Communist Party's propaganda department which is considered to be the Party's most influential bureaucracy. In that role he has taken significant criticism for his tight controls of the media in China. It's not clear whether he will continue in this role on the Standing Committee; there are suggestions that the Party may reduce the role of propaganda within the Standing Committee. If he does continue in the role, one of his challenges will be dealing with the internet, especially the increasing use of blogs and social media to express opposition to government policies.
:: Liu Yandong
Uncertain Position On Reform
Training: Engineer
If appointed, and it looks unlikely, Lui, 67, would be the first woman ever to sit on the Standing Committee. She has been the only woman on the 25-member Politburo and has been a loyal supporter of both outgoing president Hu Jintao and his predecessor Jiang Zemin. The daughter of a high-ranking politician, Ms Liu has worked in engineering and chemicals. She is seen as being liberal-minded.
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