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Forget China's astronauts. The country's most famous intergalactic traveler lives in the last house on his lane at the edge of a Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked...
Another likely leader for the '90s is Wang Zhaoguo, 44, director of the Communist Party's general office. His story is almost a Chinese version of a Horatio Alger tale. In 1980 Wang, who was then a deputy factory director, was assigned to take Deng on an inspection tour of Hubei province's No. 2 automobile plant. The bespectacled technician made such a good impression on Deng that he was promptly transferred to Peking. Two years later, Wang was elevated to the Central Committee...
Waiting in the wings are several others. Among them is Hu Jintao, 42, an economist who recently transferred from the Communist Youth League to be party chief of Guizhou province, one of the country's most challenging posts. Like Wang Zhaoguo, Hu Jintao was discovered by Deng on an inspection tour in the provinces. One of the youngest of the heirs apparent is Zhang Wei, 33, a Communist Youth League follower of Hu Qili, who has been active in Tianjin City's economic reforms...
This month's party conference is expected to consolidate that process by strengthening the position of the younger Deng supporters of the "third echelon," including Hu Qili and former Youth Leader Wang Zhaoguo. Overall, these personnel changes have been accomplished with notably less of the factional fighting and intrigue that have attended so many of China's ideological transitions in the recent past...
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