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...month. Though Hua will reportedly retain the post of Chairman that was held by Mao, the party leaders are expected to act on proposals to reduce greatly the power of that office. Hua's successor, Zhao Ziyang, 61, is the hand-picked candidate of the Senior Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping. Like Deng, Zhao is one of the many who have once again risen to power in China, after being ignominiously purged by Mao during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s...
...Congress the 76-year-old Deng will fulfill his promise to resign as Senior Vice Premier, ostensibly because of his advanced age. Also expected to relinquish their posts are four other Vice Premiers: Xu Xiangqian, 78, Li Xiannian, 73, Chen Yun, 75, and Wang Zhen...
...generation of Chinese leaders moved an important step closer to power last week when the National People's Congress, meeting in Standing Committee, promoted two provincial protégés of Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Former Sichuan Province Governor Zhao Ziyang, 61, and former Anhui Province Party Leader Wan Li, 64, were both elevated to the rank of Vice Premier; to make room for them, two longtime holdovers from the fading era of the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung were asked to resign. Zhao in particular was singled out by Deng as the new administrator who would...
...reshuffle was yet another consolidation of the Deng leadership group as it carries out its drive for the so-called Four Modernizations in industry, agriculture, defense, and science and technology. Indeed, that modernization drive has met with some success, reports TIME'S new Peking bureau chief Richard Bernstein, but it is complicated by crosscurrents of political uncertainties...
...problem that Deng and his colleagues have most successfully confronted is the nettlesome one of succession. Two months ago at an important Communist Party plenum, Deng got rid of most of the radical holdovers on the all-powerful Politburo. Now speculation centers on whether Deng, who is 75, will voluntarily step down from his government, but not party posts, as he has been hinting. That alone would be an unprecedented gesture in a country where, as one senior official recently complained, "we generally either stay in office until we die or we do something so bad we get thrown...