{"id":29642,"date":"2012-09-09T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29642 "},"modified":"2012-09-09T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:35:00","slug":"29642-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29642","title":{"rendered":"China\\’s Next President Hints at Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Reuters) – China’s president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, has said the ruling Communist Party must embrace reform with fresh vigor to stave off social and economic malaise, sources said, citing accounts of comments he made at a meeting with a party reformer.<\/span><\/div>
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Xi met the prominent reformer, Hu Deping, in the past six weeks, the sources said, in a gesture intended to show he was listening to voices calling for not only faster economic liberalization but also a relaxation of political controls.<\/span><\/div>
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China’s new leadership team, to take the reins of power from March next year, faces a slowing economy and demands from inside and outside the party to tackle problems that reformists see as threats to both growth and social stability – such as a yawning wealth gap, limited political freedom and corruption.<\/span><\/div>
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“The problems that China has accumulated are unprecedented,” one of the sources said, paraphrasing what he said was a written summary of Xi’s remarks circulated among some retired officials.<\/span><\/div>
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“We must seek progress and change while remaining steady,” Xi was quoted as saying.<\/span><\/div>
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Xi’s comments suggested that his priorities on taking over from President Hu Jintao would be to shore up China’s slowing and maturing economy and to give a boost to private business with tax reductions and other incentives, said one source.<\/span><\/div>
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Another source said Xi also recognized the need to deal with “corruption and ill-discipline in the party” as a top priority.<\/span><\/div>
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The amassing of wealth by Chinese officials’ families has become a source of public anger and a sensitive topic for Beijing. Last weekend, China demoted a top official, partly because his son was involved in a deadly crash of a luxury sports car, sources close to the leadership say.<\/span><\/div>
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Xi Jinping,&nbsp;China's&nbsp;president-in-waiting, met with a prominent reformer recently and said that the CCP needed to take on economic and political reform. &nbsp;Corruption, a slowing economy, and a growing wealth gap are all major issues for the upcoming leadership change next March. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}