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| Chinese party unveils new leaders | Chinese party unveils new leaders |
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| China's Communist Party has unveiled the leadership line-up that will steer the country for the next five years. | China's Communist Party has unveiled the leadership line-up that will steer the country for the next five years. |
| Both President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao won new terms, while four new faces joined the party's top body, the Politburo Standing Committee. | |
| They included two men seen as potential successors to Mr Hu in 2012 - Shanghai party chief Xi Jinping and Liaoning province's Li Keqiang. | They included two men seen as potential successors to Mr Hu in 2012 - Shanghai party chief Xi Jinping and Liaoning province's Li Keqiang. |
| The changes were announced at the end of the party's five-yearly congress. | The changes were announced at the end of the party's five-yearly congress. |
| He Guoqiang, the party's organisation chief, and Zhou Yongkang, the minister for public security, also joined the powerful nine-member Standing Committee. | |
| The four new additions replace three of the country's most senior leaders - Vice President Zeng Qinghong and lawmakers Luo Gan and Wu Guanzheng - who are stepping down. | |
| A fourth Standing Committee member, Huang Ju, died in the summer. |