About the same time, Hu became head of the local Communist Youth League.

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Further, their partnership also brings together the Princeling and Communist Youth League factions.

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Lu Yuegang is a veteran investigative reporter with the China Youth Daily, a newspaper run by the Communist Youth League.

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Although a former leader of the Communist youth league, he is a slick and ambitious 43-year-old who seems to model himself on Britain's Tony Blair.

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He lives on a campus run by the Communist Youth League.

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As a boy in Pozarevac, the north Serbian town where he was born 57 years ago, he was clever and competitive, running the school branch of the Communist Youth League.

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More significantly, for someone who began his career in the Communist Youth League and was an early supporter of Mr Milosevic, he dodges a question about whether he will now remain in the president's Serbian Socialist Party.

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Mr Tigipko, once a communist youth-league leader, has been promising bold changes.

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