CHINA'S Communist Party has brought its pivotal conclave to a close in largely choreographed steps, a day before unveiling its leaders for the coming decade.
President Hu Jintao is expected to step down as party chief in favour of the anointed successor, Vice President Xi Jinping, in what would be only the second orderly transfer of power in 63 years of communist rule.
The new leaders of the world's second-largest economy will face slowing growth, rising unrest among increasingly assertive citizens and delicate relations with neighbouring countries.
The party's 2200-plus delegates filed into Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Wednesday morning to select members of the Central Committee, a panel of a few hundred people that approves leadership positions and sets broad policy goals, ahead of the scheduled close of the congress later on Wednesday.
But the next lineup in China's apex of power, the Politburo Standing Committee, will be announced only on Thursday.
Though congress and Central Committee delegates have some influence over leadership decisions, most of the lineup is decided among a core group of the most powerful party members and elders.
The congress votes are "fully democratic" but "there is a degree of inevitability", said party delegate Song Guofeng of Liaoning province as he entered the hall.
"We need to have continuity in leadership to carry on. They are already in the leadership core. The stability of the party and of the country is important."
The voting concluded in the late morning, and the state Xinhua News Agency said in a brief report that Xi and premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang had been voted onto the Central Committee - an expected result.
Hu and senior leaders mostly in their late 60s are handing over power to Xi, 59, and colleagues of his generation over the next several months.
Li, currently vice premier, was tapped five years ago to be the country's next premier, China's top economic official. But other top positions were up for grabs.
China's leadership transitions are always occasions for fractious backroom bargaining, but this one has been further complicated by scandals that have fed public cynicism that the leaders are more concerned with power and wealth than government.
In recent months, Bo Xilai, a senior politician seen as a rising star, was purged after his aide exposed that his wife murdered a British businessman.
An ally of Hu's was sidelined after his son died in the crash of a Ferrari he shouldn't have been able to afford. And foreign media recently reported that relatives of Xi and outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao had amassed vast wealth. The scandals have weakened Hu, on whose watch they occurred.
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