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com- ments, even seating arrangements. Which policies are stressed? What signals are sent? Any surprises? What's “in the air”? Listening to Premier Li Keqiang (45238) give the annual government work report to the nearly 3,000 NPC delegates assembled in the Great Hall of the People, one is struck by the civi

eory section ofthe work report, Xi’s contributions take up 39 words in the English translation, more than double the theories of former leaders Deng, Jiang Zemin (2) and Hu Jintao (4833), which collectively take up 18 words. Separately, while “Marxism-Leninism” and “Mao Zedong thought” were duly noted in the

succeed Wen Jiabao as prime minister next March,=Li Keqiang, are the only two left from the outgoing committe

nstitutionally obliged to step down from his other post, as Chin='s president, next March, but that is a far less substantial job. His pr=decessors, Jiang Zemin and the late Deng Xiaoping, both kept the military =ost for a couple of years after leaving the Politburo, ostensibly to ensur= a smooth transition.

The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin (China's best-selling book of 2005). He wrote the

sm and pride.” But he cautioned that pride in China’s recent achievements should not engender complacency. Second, premier of the State Council, is Li Keqiang, who was Party secretary of Hen- an and Liaoning provinces. When I visited Liin Liaoning, he explained the complex challenges of revitalizing State-o