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| | CNN.com - Who is Hu Jintao? - Nov. 7, 2002 |
 | | Since the late 1990s, Hu, a former party secretary of the league, has been able to promote a large number of his protégés -- most of whom are CYL alumnae -- to senior positions in both Beijing and the provinces. |
 | | While Hu is expected to succeed Jiang Zemin as party chief at the 16th party Congress, he has been very careful to toe the line of President Jiang, considered the "core" of the Third Generation leadership. |
 | | Beijing academics familiar with Hu said, however, that the vice-president had ideas of his own and that because of his more liberal background, he would be expected to push reform, including political reform, at a faster pace than Jiang. |
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