Chinese Communists change leaders
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President Hu Jintao won a second five-year term as China's Communist Party chief Monday, heading a new leadership lineup that features potential successors yet could invite a divisive battle to succeed him.
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Jiang Zemin gave up the top job in China&#39;s military last night, handing over the post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao and completing a historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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Leaders of China&#39;s Communist Party have opened a four-day plenum amid reports of internal jockeying between supporters of President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin.
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China's ruling Communist Party unveiled on Monday a new leadership line-up, including two men likely to eventually succeed President Hu Jintao and government head Premier Wen Jiabao.
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China's Communist Party is due to wrap up a four-day meeting on Sunday at which military chief Jiang Zemin is expected to give up his last post, completing a historic leadership succession.
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China replaced five Cabinet ministers -- including the finance minister and the head of the secret police -- the government said Thursday, just weeks ahead of a major Communist Party meeting that will set the country's policies for the next five years.
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BEIJING - President Hu Jintao's new status as commander of China's military should strengthen efforts to fight corruption and control a surging economy, forcing resistant lower-level officials to recognize Hu as their undisputed leader, analysts said Monday.    Former President Jiang Zemin's decision to hand over his last post as military chief on Sunday, almost two years after Hu succeeded him as Communist Party leader, ended tensions over control that had let local officials resist pressure to cut spending and carry out painful reforms, the analysts said...
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When President Hu Jintao opens the 17th  Chinese Communist Party congress on October 15, he will be  seeking to oust key rivals, name a successor and finally emerge  from the shadow of his once powerful predecessor, Jiang Zemin.
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BEIJING - Former president Jiang Zemin turned over his last major post as chairman of the commission that runs China's military to his successor Hu Jintao, the government said Sunday, completing the country's first peaceful leadership transition since its 1949 revolution.    Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, handed in his resignation during a meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee, the official Xinhua News Agency said in a brief dispatch...
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Huang Ju, a Politburo member who rose out of Shanghaiâs political elite to become one of the most powerful leaders in China, presided over reforms to the countryâs banking system.
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China's Communists began winding up a  five-yearly Congress on Sunday by announcing the Vice President  was out of the new Party lineup, making way for President Hu  Jintao to install potential successors.
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WASHINGTON Jiang Zemin&#39;s surprise resignation of his chairmanship of China&#39;s Central Military Commission on Sunday marks a critical turning point in an otherwise murky and uncertain process of leadership succession in Beijing that began nearly two years
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Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Partyâs Central Committee that ended yesterday.
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China's Communist Party is due to wrap  up a four-day meeting on Sunday at which military chief Jiang  Zemin is expected to give up his last post, completing a  historic leadership succession.
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Description: Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin steps down as the head of the Chinese military, completing the first orderly handover of power in the history of the Chinese communist state.
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China replaced its finance minister Thursday amid reports he was involved in a sex scandal and also named a new chief of secret police. The reshuffle appeared aimed at putting President Hu Jintao's allies in key positions before a Communist Party meeting that will set policies for the next five years.
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MARK COLVIN: In China, President Hu Jintao has now assumed control of the military, marking his rise to full power after a leadership change that began in late 2002.