Welcome to AFP’s Live Report on the unveiling of China’s highest decision-making body, the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee.
The event takes place in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, after the five-yearly party congress ended Wednesday.
Xi Jinping, the son of a revered Communist revolutionary, is widely expected to lead out the group as the Communist Party’s new general-secretary, and as such the new leader of the world’s most populous country and second-largest economy.
In China’s one-party state the Communist post is the most important position in the country, more significant than the national presidency — although Xi is also expected to take over there in March.
Officially the Politburo Standing Committee is chosen by the party’s Central Committee, which was elected by the more than 2,200 congress delegates. In reality it is the product of years of backroom negotiations between different factions in the organisation.
Chinese Communist Party leadership: Live Report
