China's Hu seen further consolidating power
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China's Communist Party chief Hu Jintao is seeking to cement his grip on power at a closed-door party meeting which began on Sunday while further whittling away at the residual influence of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin.
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Jiang Zemin, China&#39;s military chief and longtime senior leader, may formally step down on Sunday, putting President Hu Jintao in full command of the Chinese Army, state and
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BEIJING - China would come to a &#39;dead end&#39; if it copied blindly from Western political systems, President Hu Jintao said yesterday on the eve of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) meeting focused on shoring up its own waning image and legitimacy.
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Secrecy shrouded a meeting of China's  Communist Party for a third day Saturday, but a Hong Kong  newspaper added to speculation that military chief Jiang Zemin  would give up his last post and complete the succession to  party chief and president Hu Jintao.
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China&#39;s President Hu Jintao has made an important speech opposing Western-style political reform for the country. Speaking ahead of a key meeting of the ruling Communist Party, he said China would be led into
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China's ruling Communist Party unveiled a new leadership line-up on Monday, including two men positioned to eventually succeed President Hu Jintao and government head Premier Wen Jiabao.
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BEIJING, June 26 -- President Hu Jintao, in a solemn speech laying out his views, said that China's swift economic reforms must continue but that the Communist Party should retain its monopoly on political power for the foreseeable future.
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China on Monday unveiled a new leadership team expected to give President Hu Jintao a stronger hand in ruling the country for five more years while a successor is groomed to take over in 2012.
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WASHINGTON - The United States looks forward to expanding ties with China under President Hu Jintao, who has also just taken over as military chief of the most populous nation.
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Many Chinese, including myself, probably have a vague idea of what Latin America looks like. President Hu Jintao&#39;s ongoing four-nation trip to the region, which has hit headlines lately, has made the image clearer.
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Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, China's largest carmaker, is consolidating its assets into a new company as it considers listing its shares abroad.
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Hu Jintao, who just took over as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and his predecessor Jiang Zemin had a meeting with all participants of the Fourth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee in Beijing
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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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Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has taken command of the world&#39;s largest military, inheriting the challenge of transforming a 2.5-million-strong force long bent on making money into a world-class war machine.
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The king is dead; long live the king. That monarchist continuum has found an echo in contemporary China. In a process of seamless succession, Hu Jin Tao, till now the head of state of China and secretary-general
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BEIJING - 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 hand to run the world's most populous nation.    Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee that ended Sunday...
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Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao ruled out multi-party democracy on Wednesday on the eve of a key meeting aimed at tightening the party&#39;s grip on power.