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...Deng, along with Hua and the other retiring Vice Premiers, will keep his powerful position in the Communist Party, which remains the seat of ultimate authority in China. But by bringing in a younger, more vigorous team, Deng is clearly hoping to bring more efficiency and energy to China's government ministries. In the same way, he has also been trying to weed out the inefficient, lazy and corrupt officials who snarl the middle levels of China's huge bureaucracy...
...weather instead of bad judgment. Some foreign analysts suspect that the rig disaster could serve as a handy pretext to purge the Petroleum Ministry. A so-called "oil clique" that included Song had concentrated on petroleum at the expense of a more diversified energy policy favored by Deng...
Even before the congress opened last week, the new officials had quietly taken up the day-to-day operations of their posts. All are close associates of Deng's. The best known is Premier-designate Zhao, who enjoys a national reputation for his innovations with free markets, bonuses and a relatively liberal system of local autonomy in Sichuan, China's most populous province. Wan Li, 64, former head of Anhui province-and, as it happens, a reputed bridge partner of Deng's-will become head of the state agricultural commission...
...most delicate part of the changeover was the removal of Hua, who is two years younger than the 62-year-old man who will replace him. Some analysts, in fact, think that some serious quarrels could yet break out between Hua and Deng's proteges. The Deng forces have lately taken to making oblique attacks against Hua in the press. Most of the old Maoist programs that are now being discredited, for example, were ardently supported by Hua, the last major leader who owes his power directly to the patronage of Mao. A recent Central Committee directive against excessive...
Over the past few months, Hua has been noticed meeting with military commanders, who are also suspected of being unhappy with Deng, in part because of the low priority being given to modernization of the military establishment. Thus while the Deng forces seemed supreme as the congress opened, they had yet to prove that they could avoid the sort of factionalism in the party that has bedeviled China's leaders so often in the past...