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 | China NPC 2003: China's Agriculture Minister Du Qinglin speaks during a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Monday, March 10, 2003. Du says the outlook for farmers is positive in part due to government policies encouraging them to look for jobs in cities. click to open  |  | China NPC 2003: Chinese President Jiang Zemin, left, tries to stifle a yawn near Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao during a session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 11, 2003. Hu, who took over as Communist Party General Secretary in November, is expected to replace Jiang Zemin as China's next President after this Congress meeting ends March 18. click to open |  | China NPC 2003: Chinese President Jiang Zemin, left and Chinese Vice President, Hu Jintao, right chat during a session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 11, 2003. Hu, who took over as Communist Party General Secretary in November, is expected to replace Jiang Zemin as China's next President after this Congress meeting ends March 18. click to open |  | China NPC 2003: Chinese staff in the background assists Chinese President Jiang Zemin, foreground, with his chair as he leaves at the end of a session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 11, 2003. Jiang is expected to give up his presidency to Vice President Hu Jintao at the end of the Congress on March 18. click to open |  | China NPC 2003: Chinese Vice Premier Wen Jiabao, listens to a session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 11, 2003. Wen is expected to take over from Premier Zhu Rongji at the end of this Congress on March 18. click to open |  | China NPC 2003: Chinese delegates vote during a session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Monday, March 10, 2003. China's legislature on Monday approved a sweeping restructuring of the country's Cabinet to help the government grapple with enormous economic and social changes that two decades of reform have unleashed. The changes bring China's system closer to American and other Western models. The largely ceremonial National People's Congress endorsed the government's proposal by a vote of 2,699 to 88. click to open |  | China CCP's 16th Congress: Zeng Qinghong (C), Jia Qingling (L) and Huang Ju, all protege of President Jiang Zemin, meet the media as China unveils 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. The Standing Committee makes the critical decisions governing China. The members are Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan. click to open |  | China CCP's 16th Congress: The new members of China's Politburo Standing Committee pose for photographs together with the members of the outgoing Standing Committee in Beijing Friday Nov. 15, 2002. From left are Luo Gan, Wu Guanzheng, Zeng Qinghong, Wen Jiabao, Li Lanqing, Hu Jintao, Zhu Rongji, Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Li Ruihuan, Wei Jianxing, Wu Bangguo, Jia Qinglin, Huang Ju, and Li Changchun. Hu Jintao, the new leader of China's Communist Party, is the only member of the outgoing Standing Committee to remain on the new Standing Committee. click to open |
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