These rule the provinces much as the nine-member Politburo standing committee in Beijing rules China as a whole.
On Thursday, Chinese state media reported that the Politburo Standing Committee convened a special meeting to consider the economy.
The Politburo Standing Committee, the party's most powerful organization, sets broad monetary policy, which is then implemented by the PBOC.
The commission itself is headed by He Guoqiang, one of nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body.
Mr. Wang is a candidate for promotion to the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, and he is among those in Beijing this week for the congress.
She is also a potential candidate for promotion to the narrower Politburo Standing Committee the top decision-making body in a once-a-decade-leadership change that begins in the fall.
Before the session ended, the Politburo Standing Committee asked major media to come up with commentaries attacking U.S. "neo-hegemonism" and extolling the patriotism of the defense forces.
Prior to her husband's appointment in 2007 to the Politburo Standing Committee China's top decision-making body she also talked publicly about their relationship in interviews with Chinese state media outlets.
In 1992, he was promoted to the Politburo standing committee.
There is much speculation in Beijing as to whether the successor to Mr Zhou as political-legal chief to be named this autumn will also join the new Politburo standing committee.
Where it counts at the Politburo Standing Committee, the Central Military Commission, and the Leading Group on Foreign Affairs there is still strong support for the Kim family, despite its potentially destructive antics.
Revelations of suspicions around Mr. Heywood's death contributed to the ouster of Mr. Bo, once a popular leader and candidate to ascend to the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee during the leadership transition.
Meanwhile, Mr. Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, is due Tuesday to meet with Li Changchun, who ranks fifth among the nine members of the current Politburo Standing Committee and oversees matters related to media and ideology.
The standoff is particularly risky for Wang Yang, the Communist Party chief of Guangdong, who is vying with other candidates for promotion to the Politburo Standing Committee the party's top decision-making body in a once-a-decade leadership change next year.
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The new Nobel laureate is of the same generation as the new leaders set to take over the Politburo Standing Committee next month after the convening of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The removal of Mr. Bo, who had been running an unusually overt campaign to thrust himself into the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, is being widely viewed as a rejection of individualist politics in favor of consensus-driven decision making.
The Financial Times (which belongs to Pearson, part-owner of this newspaper) reported an impossible-to-refute account that Zhou Yongkang, a member of the elite Politburo standing committee, had been privately stripped of his powers for lobbying too forcefully on behalf of Mr Bo.
As a result of media reforms introduced by Hu and Politburo Standing Committee member Li Changchun earlier this year, instructions have already been given to provinces and cities to stop interfering with efforts by media units under their jurisdictions to cover "negative" news and phenomena such as industrial and mining accidents.
Mr Bo had been thought of as a contender for elevation to the Politburo's Standing Committee, the pinnacle of power in China.
Mr Bo had been a contender to rise later this year to the Politburo's Standing Committee, the nine people at the very top.
Mr Zeng is a front-runner for promotion to the Politburo's standing committee as well as to a senior post in the Central Military Commission after this year's congress.
The party chief of Guangdong province in the south, Wang Yang, who is another (non-princeling) contender for the Politburo's standing committee, is widely seen as a bit more open-minded.
Late this year the party is due to hold its five-yearly congress, at which seven out of the nine members of the ruling Politburo's standing committee are expected to be replaced.
He is also the youngest member of the Politburo's supreme standing committee.
He installed his hand-picked slate in the Politburo's supreme standing committee and banished prominent rivals such as National People's Congress Chairman Qiao Shi and military chief Gen.
He entered the Standing Committee of the Politburo in 2007 and in 2008 became the country's vice president.
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