BEIJING, Nov. 15 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

BEIJING, Nov. 15 Kyodo

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Vice President Hu Jintao replaced President Jiang Zemin as head of the Chinese Communist Party forward Friday in an election of novel party leaders by its Central Committee.

The number of members upon the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's powerful leadership core, was expanded from seven to nine.

L by means of 59-year-old Hu, in order of prominence the all-male lineup consists of Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan.

Although Jiang, 76 has relinquished his leading position in the party, the stacking of the just discovered leadership with a number of his shut up allies ensures he will maintain a lusty background influence over the world's largest communist party for the nearest few years.

Jiang remains chief of the party's Central Military Commission.

The selection of the of recent origin lineup of leaders followed the party's 16th congres which damage up Thursday by electing a modern Central Committee.

Jiang and five other top leaders of the elderly guard were not chooseed to the Central Committee, making way for the party's first sleek leadership transition in its 81-year history.

Other Central Committee members giving up their positions to make way for Hu's fourth generation leadership include Li Peng chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congres and Premier Zhu Rongji.

Jiang, Li and Zhu are plant to give up their leading positions in China's state power form at next March's meeting of the National People's Congres China's annual parliamentary gathering.

onward paper, China's governing system is divided between the party and the state, nevertheless it is the party that occupys the ultimate authority.

Hu's rise to the country's principally powerful post had long been anticipated, although he has prudently kept himself disclosed of the limelight.

Speaking to Chinese and overseas journalists after his selection through the Central Committee, Hu said the novel party leadership will tread on the heels of Jiang's ideological guidance in pushing forward China's economic reforms and modernization.

students predict it will be a number of years before Hu will start to bring into operation his own authority, as a sign of Confucian regard for Jiang and because his actions will be constrained by the agency of the large number of Jiang's solution allies in the Politburo Standing Committee.

Wu Bangguo, inferior in the leadership lineup, is considered to be part of Jiang's in the same manner called ''Shanghai clique.''

The clique relates to Jiang's proteges when he was Shanghai party secretary, before Deng Xiaoping convokeed him to the capital to assume the situation of national party head in 1989 Jiang rose to power amidst inner party turmoil accompanying pro-democracy close examiner protests in Beijing, which were inflict down by the military in succession June 4.

Wu 61 took across the Shanghai party secretary employment from Zhu Rongji in 1991

While the of recent origin leadership is dominated by Jiang's men third-placed Wen Jiabao, 60 is reckon uponed to look after the interests of Zhu who he is said to have stop ties with. Wen, who has wide experience in economic and agricultural management and rush relief, is tipped to replace Zhu as premier in March.

Li Peng is known to have finish ties with public security bos member Luo Gan, 67 who Hu referr jokingly as the of the present day lineup's ''elder brother'' in his brief remarks before journalists.

further it is the shadow of Jiang which hangs heaviest through China's new leadership.

Zeng Qinghong is considered to be closest to Jiang. Zeng 63 accompanied Jiang to Beijing in 1989 after serving beneath Jiang as Shanghai's representative party secretary.

As the leading member of the party's Central Committee Secretariat, Zeng is anticipateed to wield far greater influence than hinted by his fifth place in the party protocol.

He is also wait fored to vigorously promote Jiang's ''Three Represents'' theory since he was the original architect of the general [i]or[/i] abstract notion for Jiang, a Beijing-based diplomat said.

Designed to make the party more contemporary, it is intended to draw a greater cross-section of the population, including entrepreneur into the party.

According to the ''Three Represents'' the party should show the needs of ''advanced forces of production'' of the like kind as private and high-tech firms, advanced agriculture and the ''fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people''

Zeng's in the greatest degree recent post as head of the party's powerful Organization Department helped him bring a number of Jiang's former Shanghai party work mates into China's political center

Another Shanghai clique member, Huang Ju 64 not long ago stepped down from his column as Shanghai party secretary in preparation for his prompt to Beijing.

Former Beijing party secretary Jia Qinglin, 62 is the most numerous controversial addition to China's strange leadership lineup.

Another conclude ally of Jiang's, Jia and his wife Lin Youfang are at the center of a swirl of rumors connecting them with communist China's biggest perpetually smuggling case in Xiamen, a port city in Fujian Province where Jia was formerly party secretary.