Beijing: Chinese President Hu Jintao has cleared the way for Vice President Xi Jinping, stepping aside as Communist Party leader.
Jintao is no longer in the party’s leadership as he was not re-elected a member of the party’s Central Committee on the final day of the gathering, two delegates to the party’s national congress told The Associated Press.
The delegates declined to be named as the official list of members had not yet been released.
Xi was re-elected along with other leading candidates for seats on the party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee.
Designated as successor five years ago, Xi will take over as party general secretary from Hu on Thursday and as president next spring, in China’s second orderly transfer of power since the 1949 communist revolution. Li Keqiang also is due to take over from Wen Jiabao as premier.
The party’s 2,200-plus delegates gathered at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People for the secretive, weeklong meeting.
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