Xi Set to Dominate China Leadership After One-Time Rivals Depart
- Leader ignores decades old retirement age in both directions
- Four seats on seven-member Standing Committee were vacated
Xi Jinping, China's president, greets some delegates at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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President Xi Jinping is officially set for a third term surrounded by allies, after key Communist Party officials without close ties to the Chinese leader exited the nation’s top leadership body.
The 205-member Central Committee featured Xi and a host of his loyalists, while Premier Li Keqiang, 67, and fellow Communist Youth League veteran Wang Yang, 67, left the body. That paves the way for Xi to consolidate control over the country’s most powerful positions when the supreme Politburo Standing Committee is unveiled at noon on Sunday.