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标 题: Wen Jiabao Named As China's Next Premier
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月16日18:25:08 星期天), 站内信件
From the Guardian
Wen Jiabao Named As China's Next Premier
Sunday March 16, 2003 9:30 AM
BEIJING (AP) - The third-ranking member of China's Communist Party was appoi
nted Sunday to be its next premier, assuming control of a fast-changing econ
omy that has carried the country to new heights and created staggering probl
ems during two decades of reform.
Wen Jiabao, 60, replaces the retiring Zhu Rongji.
The vote was 2,906 for Wen and three against, with 16 abstentions. Wen rose
and shook hands with Zhu as the Great Hall of the People applauded.
The legislature, the National People's Congress, approved Wen's elevation as
the final rubber-stamp personnel appointment of a generational leadership t
ransition in China's government.
Wen, the odds-on favorite for more than a year, becomes the country's top ec
onomic official. He made no public remarks after his appointment but shook h
ands with delegates after the session adjourned.
The smiling technocrat with a penchant for escaping brouhahas that have take
n down the people around him replaces Zhu, who is retiring after five years
of running the day-to-day tasks of the government. Zhu, however, received tw
o write-in votes to be the nation's chief prosecutor.
On Saturday, party leader Hu Jintao was elevated to president and other top
communist officials took top government posts in a transition years in the m
aking. The legislature is believed to endorse all decisions mandated by the
party, which is the true font of power in China.
Wen's appointment fits that profile. He was named to the Communist Party's i
nner-circle Politburo Standing Committee in November.
His chief - and daunting - tasks are to implement changes required by China'
s World Trade Organization membership and, more generally, keep the country'
s economy moving.
That's a chief worry among China's new leaders, who are taking the reins of
an increasingly restive society of 1.3 billion people struggling to cope wit
h unemployment and rural poverty - and a feeling by poorer Chinese that two
decades of economic reform begun by the late Deng Xiaoping left them behind.
``There is still much more work to be done in the countryside,'' said Pan Yu
nhe, a legislative delegate and a computer science professor from the southe
astern province of Zhejiang.
``We have a lot of confidence in Wen Jiabao,'' Pan said Sunday before Wen's
confirmation. ``He's been concerned about rural issues for a long time, and
we think that he will take care of them.''
Wang Yongchun, a delegate who is a provincial official from northeastern Chi
na's Jilin province, said, ``Developing the economy will be the biggest chal
lenge. I think Wen Jiabao is most well-suited for the job. He has the traini
ng and the ability to do it.''
Hu, 60, was the only candidate for president. He was anointed long ago by De
ng and now controls both party and government, the two most prominent posts
in China.
Legislative delegates on Saturday also reappointed outgoing President Jiang
Zemin chairman of the government commission that leads China's 2.5-million-m
ember military. He already chairs an identical party commission, and there w
as no indication when he might give up those posts.
Jiang had been party chief since 1989 and president since 1993.
Wen, born in the eastern city of Tianjin, studied geology and joined the Com
munist Party in 1965. As he rose through the ranks, his career path remained
smooth despite an eight-year tenure in the party's Central Office during wh
ich two of his three co-workers fell from grace.
Zhu, a crusty reformer known for his straight talk, sense of humor and irrit
ability, leaves behind a reputation as a tough taskmaster who helped China's
economy recover from the Asian financial crisis.
--
We are angels with but one wing.
To fly we must embrace each other.
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