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Jiang 'successor' keeps veil of mystery
By CNN Senior China Analyst Willy Wo-Lap Lam
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao is pursuing a "three nos" policy in order not to be seen as upstaging his more senior colleagues or party elders. The low-profile policy is a reference to no public display of his calligraphy or image in public, no interviews with domestic or foreign media, and no attempts to refurbish his ancestral home in Anhui Province. Hu, 59, is slated to become Communist party general secretary at the 16th Party Congress next month, and state president next March. However, he has stayed away from the limelight except for public functions in which he often heaps praises on the theories of his boss, President Jiang Zemin. While the foreign media has run dozens of profiles on the prospective national leader, Hu has remained a mystery to most Chinese. The vice-president has also asked his aides and protégés, most of whom are associated with the Communist Youth League that he once headed, to keep a similarly low profile. Beijing sources close to the Hu camp said the vice-president was concentrating on ensuring the promotion of members of the so-called Communist Youth League faction to senior positions. Lying lowHu protégés who have a chance of making it to either the Politburo or the Communist party secretariat include the party boss of Fujian Province, Song Defu and the Governor of Henan Province, Li Keqiang. Meanwhile, another senior cadre slated for elevation at the 16th Congress, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference chairman Li Ruihuan is also lying low. Li, 68, is expected to become Chairman of the National People's Congress -- and to be ranked just behind Hu in the Politburo pecking order. In the past few months, Li, a popular politician, has been absent from the state media save for non-political activities such as cultural events. The official press on Thursday reported that Li had attended a function marking the 80th birthday of a famous Peking opera artist. The former Tianjin mayor is the only senior official who has not made a public declaration of support for Jiang's Theory of the Three Represents, which argues that the party must strengthen itself by recruiting more members of the new classes.
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