 | China CCP's 16th Congress: An attendant pours tea for Chinese President Jiang Zemin, center, during the closing ceremony of the 16th Communist Party Congress in Beijing Thursday Nov. 14, 2002. click to open  |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: Chinese President Jiang Zemin (R), Premier Zhu Rongji (C) and Vice President Hu Jintao are shown during a ceremony to mark the closing of the 16th party congress in Beijing on November 14. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: Chinese President Jiang Zemin (L) talks with Vice President Hu Jintao during the 16th Chinese Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 8. Hu will take over as China's Communist Party leader. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: Chinese President Jiang Zemin (R) stands next to Premier Zhu Rongji as he announces the closing of the 16th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing November 14, 2002. China confirmed Thursday that Jiang is retiring as Communist Party chief and that he and top colleagues will hand over to a new generation of leaders under Vice President Hu Jintao. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: China's new Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao reacts during an event to introduce the new members of the Politburo Standing Committee in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Friday Nov. 15, 2002. Hu was making his first appearance as Communist Party leader, after the retirement of previous party General Secretary Jiang Zemin at the end of the Party's 16th National Congress. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: China's new Party Chief Hu Jintao addresses the media after China unveiled new members of the all powerful standing Committee of the elite Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 15, 2002. Hu took the helm of the world's most populous nation on Friday to steer its booming economy and maintain tight Communist Party control with predecessor Jiang Zemin pulling strings from retirement. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: New Politburo Standing Committee member Zeng Qinghong, 63, waves during a ceremony to introduce China's new leadership in Beijing November 15, 2002. Zeng, President Jiang Zemin's main protege and hatchet man, emerged to number five position in the Standing Committee and is expected to take over the day-to-day running the Chinese Communist Party. The new Standing Committee, expanded from seven to nine members, was stacked with six Jiang allies, guaranteeing him a say in decision making a China grapples with rising unemployment and emerges as a world power. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: New Politburo Standing Committee member Jia Qinglin, 62, waves during a ceremony to introduce China's new leadership in Beijing November 15, 2002. Jia, a close friend of President Jiang Zemin, emerged to number four position in the Standing Committee despite being tainted by a huge smuggling scandal that unfolded when he was party boss in the southeastern province of Fujian. He is expected to take a back seat role in the leadership -- most likely as head of the toothless Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: Hu Jintao, new General Secretary of China's Communist Party, claps his hands as he addresses the media after China unveiled new members of the all powerful standing Committee of the elite Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, November 15, 2002. Hu took the helm of the world's most populous nation to steer its booming economy and maintain tight Communist Party control with predecessor Jiang Zemin pulling strings from retirement. click to open |
 | China CCP's 16th Congress: Jiang Zemin, president and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, claps as he meets with the delegates of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday Nov. 15, 2002. Jiang is staying on as head of the world's largest military even as he relinquishes command of the Communist Party after 13 years in power. Hu Jintao, China's new Communist Party leader, is seen in background, right. click to open |
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