China supreme heading for Beijing
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ATHENS: China, the dominant force in world diving for the best part of 20 years, won six out of eight Olympic titles in Athens and prompted speculation about a clean sweep when they stage the Games in Beijing in 2008.
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Beijing (AsiaNews) - Sources in the Chinese capital revealed to AsiaNews that Jiang Zemin is going to step down tomorrow as chairman of the Central Military Commission, making way for President Hu Jintao to become the mainland&#39;s undisputed leader.
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Beijing marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of its late supreme leader, Deng Xiaoping.
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China&#39;s president, Hu Jintao, replaced Jiang Zemin as the country&#39;s military chief and de facto top leader on Sunday, state media announced, completing the first orderly transfer
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Chinese authorities have told senior  religious leaders in a Tibetan area to urge the faithful to  show more support for a top monk anointed by Beijing and on  whom the future of the restive region may ride.
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After months of tension between Beijing and Berlin, a Chinese minister has said German Chancellor Angela Merkel is welcome in the Chinese capital, Handelsblatt daily will report in its Monday edition.
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China's annual parliament meeting begins in Beijing with an address by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
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BEIJING -- China's communists were set to wrap up a key leadership meeting today amid speculation over whether former president Jiang Zemin is giving up his last major post, accelerating a handover of power to his successor, Hu Jintao.
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China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said on Thursday.
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China&#39;s top communist leaders today wind up a high level meeting, with expectations that a political reshuffle has taken place.
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China's Communist Party unveils its new leadership line-up, with new faces joining its top decision-making body.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao is set to oust political rivals, promote allies to key posts and emerge politically stronger from a Communist Party conclave.
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RBC, 14.10.2004, Moscow 10:11:59.Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived on an official visit to Beijing (China) this morning.
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Shanghai, a financial and economic center of China, pledged to build itself into an air transport hub for Asia and Pacific region and a key link in the world&#39;s aviation network
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A CITY will hold its traditional Chinese New Ye
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The top U.S. nuclear envoy planned to visit Beijing on Tuesday amid a report that North Korea's reclusive leader may be prepared to enter China on a special train.
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A year before Beijing hosts the Summer Games, the country is feverishly preparing for its chance to show it is ready to take its place among the Great Powers  -  on its own terms