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UPDATED: March 18, 2013 NO. 12 MARCH 21, 2013
Leading From the Front
Top leadership formally assumes duties and stands poised to turn dreams into reality
By Yin Pumin
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GREETINGS: Xi Jinping talks with female deputies to the 12th National People's Congress on March 8, International Women's Day (HUANG JINGWEN)

"Such experiences are valuable," Dai said. "They give them a full understanding of society and the country, so that they will address state issues from the viewpoint of common people and focus more on improving people's livelihood."

Xi once said that he received a great deal of guidance from two groups of people: the old generation of revolutionaries and villagers in Shaanxi, his ancestral home where he worked on a farm for seven years.

"Officials should love the people in the way they love their parents, work for their benefit and lead them to prosperity," Xi has often said.

Before he was promoted in 2007, Xi held leading Party and government posts in both the comparatively underdeveloped inland and rural areas, such as a village in Shaanxi and Zhengding County in northern Hebei Province, as well as the more prosperous coastal Fujian and Zhejiang provinces and the country's economic hub, Shanghai.

Like Xi, Li also has rich governance experience at local levels. Aside from being secretary of a village CPC branch in east China's Anhui in the mid-1970s, Li served as secretary of the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) Committee of Peking University. He was a member of the Secretariat of the CYLC Central Committee and the Party chief of central China's Henan Province and northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Zhang served as Party secretary for four provincial-level regions from 1995 until late last year. These regions included the provinces of Jilin, Zhejiang and Guangdong as well as Chongqing Municipality.

After assuming the posts of minister of construction and Party chief of Hubei Province, Yu succeeded Xi as Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee in 2007.

"Such experiences have enabled them to understand what the people need most. This ability cannot be learned from books and is also their big advantage," Dai said.

Another feature of the new leadership is that they have abundant learning experience and sound professional backgrounds.

Many of them studied in the best colleges in China, and some others attended in-service educational programs.

Their academic and educational backgrounds better meet the requirements of contemporary economic and social development, Dai said.

A feature of their academic backgrounds is that many studied humanities and social sciences while others majored in political science, law and management, giving them confidence in pushing forward reform in all respects, said Cheng Li, Director of Research at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution.

Xi studied chemical engineering at Tsinghua University and Li holds a doctorate in economics from Peking University. Both studied law in their respective academic institutions. Zhang also possesses a degree in economics, and Yu is the only one among the top leaders who majored in a technology-related field.

Xie said that the new leaders are not rigid or conservative, and they will guarantee adherence to reform and opening up and the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

"They participated in, witnessed and benefited from reform and opening up, and know what it was like before, so none of them want to turn back," Xie said.

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