From the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief:
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) holds a Congress of Delegates every five years to pick a new Central Committee and Politburo. While the 17th CCP Congress is not due to take place until autumn 2007, President and General Secretary Hu Jintao has already started the crucial task of inserting allies and cronies in key party and government slots. Most of the 63-year-old Hu’s associates and underlings hail from the Communist Youth League (CYL), which he headed in the mid-1980s. Much of the quality of China’s next leadership corps”in addition to Hu’s succession strategy”can be gleaned from studying the profiles of a couple of the president’s favorites.
