New Faces Make Up Over Half of 16th CPC Central Committee

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, November 14, 2002

New Faces Make Up Over Half of 16th CPC Central Committee

Some 180 out of the 356 members and alternate members of the new Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee are new faces, sources said Thursday.

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Some 180 out of the 356 members and alternate members of the new Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee are new faces, sources said Thursday.

Delegates to the week-long 16th CPC National Congress elected the new Central Committee.

The committee consists of 198 full members and 158 alternate members more than 180 are new faces. Some of the members are CEOs and chairmen of China's huge enterprises, a signal that the Party embraces Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents" idea and begins to include professional business managers in its top decison-making body.

The committee now looks much younger, with the average age of the committee members being 55.4 years old. More than 20 percent of the members and alternate members of the new central committee are under the age of 50.

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