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...leader of the newest wave, and the fastest-rising star in the political firmament today, is Hu Qili (pronounced Chee-lee), 55, a gifted Communist Youth League activist. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, Hu Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking University. ! There he attracted the attention of Hu Yaobang. Hu Qili is now the General Secretary's protege and, according to Politburo Member Peng Zhen, the likely successor. Hu Qili is described as a smooth and charismatic man. "He is what we call both Red and expert," says a middle-level...
...About 800 top people will be replaced in May and June. And next September, the Communist Party's Central Committee will probably be enlarged to bring in about a hundred younger members. Taking the cue, Party Secretary Hu, 69, has hinted at his choice for his own successor: Hu Qili, 55, now a high-ranking member of the party secretariat...
...that followed Mao's "Let a hundred flowers bloom" movement in 1957 or anything like the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, when many writers were banished to manual labor for failing to toe the ideological line. What attracted the most attention, however, was a speech made by Hu Qili, a high- ranking member of the party's Secretariat. Hu told his 800 listeners that the party believed "literary creation must be free" and pledged that writers would never again become victims of political persecution. According to the People's Daily, some of the delegates wept openly with joy. Though...
China's future leaders are now emerging. At a party meeting in late December, Deng lavishly praised several younger members, including Hu Qili, who is in charge of the Secretariat's day-to-day operations and who, at 56, is considered a rising star. Deng also announced a party delegate conference for next September to elect as many as 50 new members to the 346-seat Central Committee. The anticipated housecleaning is intended to make room for younger, more open-minded and better-educated officials who are likely to promote rather than resist reform. Efforts are also under...