Xi Jinping new President of China Communist Party after 18th CPC national Congress

As current leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Ja Bao hand over the reins of power to younger men, current Deputy Premier Li Keqiang is also expected to be promoted.

The Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision-making body is expected to have its members reduced from nine to seven.

At the congress, delegates also discussed plans for economic and political reforms. But leaders maintain there are no plans for a Western-style democracy.
Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said: "The road of political development that China is taking will certainly not be like the United Kingdom. China will take its own special path, because China is the world's biggest developing country."
59-year old Xi Jinping has been China's vice president since 2008, albeit with a much lower profile than other Chinese leaders.



New "Elected" President XI JINPING in China  ,習近平

 His father was a revolutionary hero under Mao Zedong who became the country's vice premier more than five decades earlier.
It was the elder Xi's connections that would help the young Jinping rise through the ranks so quickly.
He would go on to hold positions in five of China's provinces before becoming party chief in Zhejiang in 2002 and then Shanghai in 2007.

Xi then moved to the national stage, appointed to the nine-man Politburo Standing Committee and then to the post of deputy president.
His personal life has been carefully honed by Chinese government.
He has a daughter from his first of two marriages.
Xi is said to love Hollywood films and has been described as pragmatic, serious, hard-working and low-key by the Washington Post.
Others have described him as relaxed and at ease to talk with people, unlike other Chinese leaders who tend to take a more cautious approach.
Xi is said to want to maintain good relations with Washington and called for a deepening of "mutual understanding" in a meeting with US President Barack Obama earlier this year.