"It is the biggest breakthrough of the Party plenum, " reckons rural development expert Han Jun.

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Another, favoured by some Chinese liberals, is that he heads a reformist strain in the party beaten back at the plenum by conservatives.

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But almost all of them are related to the party plenum last month and the five-yearly congress in 2012 for which it was preparing.

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The plenum was of crucial symbolic importance for Mr Hu.

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At the mid-February 1994 Plenum of the pro-democratic "Russia's Choice" party, a group of activists asked reformist ex-Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar to promote the quickest possible introduction of constitutional monarchy.

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Amid all the talk of addressing the wealth gap, the party's plenum reiterated a commitment to rapid growth by restating a goal of raising China's GDP to double its 2000 level by 2010.

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Most analysts, however, agree that the party leadership will make a political decision in time for a full meeting known as a plenum of the roughly 300-strong Central Committee, which is expected shortly before the leadership transition.

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His words seem to have dictated the style and substance of the 5th Plenum of the Communist Party's 14th Central Committee, which met behind closed doors in Beijing for four days last week to endorse a new Five-Year Plan.

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While the 4th Plenum of 1994 had been dominated by high-level personnel changes, the primary achievement this year was to put the official stamp on China's 9th Five-Year Plan and other economic documents that will steer the nation into the next century.

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