China Communists End Leadership Meeting
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China&#39;s communists wrap up a key leadership meeting Sunday 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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BEIJING - China&#39;s former president Jiang Zemin has retired as chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission, his last official post in government.
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BEIJING : China&#39;s annual economic planning meeting closed Sunday stressing the need to focus on &quot;deep-set contradictions&quot;, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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The seventh and final working meeting of the Police Restructuring Commission ended today.
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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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Description: As leaders of China&#39;s Communist Party meet in Beijing, much of the focus is on the rivalry between President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin.
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Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era on Sunday with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post -- giving a new generation a freer
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The country's Communist leadership convened a series of emergency meetings to manage the consequences of the death of Zhao Ziyang and confront the legacy of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
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China's ruling party leadership were locked in a much-anticipated meeting in Beijing amid an apparent power struggle at the heart of the 68-million-member organization.
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Shanghai's top Communist Party leader has been sacked over a major corruption scandal, China's state press said, although analysts suggested it could be part of a power play by President Hu Jintao.
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China&#39;s ruling Communist Party leaders, led by Hu Jintao, began a four-day closed-door plenum in Beijing today that is due to set policy for the next year and could bring some leadership changes.
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Former president Jiang Zemin gave up  the top job in China's military on Sunday, handing over his  last post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao to complete a  historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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In Mao Zedong's day, the world was not even aware China's ruling Communist Party was holding one of its agenda-setting congresses until the whole event was over.
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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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China's Communist Party opened a four-day, closed-door meeting on Thursday that will decide whether military chief Jiang Zemin completes a leadership succession by passing on his last post to party chief Hu Jintao.
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A meeting of China&#39;s ruling Communist Party is due to close later on Sunday amid reports military chief Jiang Zemin will complete a long awaited leadership transition by handing the army over to President Hu Jintao.
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BEIJING : Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin&#39;s resignation as his country&#39;s military chief marks the complete orderly transfer of power from the third to the fourth generation of leaders.