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TAPE: EF02/0968 IN_TIME: 04:06:49 / 07:25:04 DURATION: 3:35 SOURCES: APTN/CCTV/POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various - Recent/File SHOTLIST: CCTV FILE Beijing - 1992 1. Wide shot of seven permanent members of Politburo of 14th Party Congress Central Committee being introduced by Chinese President Jiang Zemin 2. Close up on then 49 year-old Hu Jintao, the youngest member ever to join CCTV FILE Beijing - 25 February 1997 3. Wide shot of memorial for Deng Xiaoping, China's second generation leader after Mao, at the Great Hall of the People 4. Mid shot of leaders mourning 5. Pan left from Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji to Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao CCTV FILE Beijing - 29 September 1999 6. Wide shot of military committee with Jiang and Hu 7. Mid shot of Hu addressing the military generals at during the promotion ceremony 8. Cutaway Jiang 9. Pan right of military generals 10. Zoom out from Jiang and Hu standing with military generals CCTV FILE Various locations 11. Various shots of Hu Jintao in early days, meeting people APTN Beijing - 5 November 2002 12. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lu Shizhen, Professor and vice president of China Youth University for Political Sciences: "I remember when I worked with him at the Central Youth Committee, he would always pick up on things which other people would overlook or forget but he was never the kind of person who would brag about it up front." CCTV FILE Various locations 13. Hu meeting ethnic minorities in Guizhou state, southern China 14. Hu sitting at a meeting with Muslim minorities in Gansu state, northwest China 15. Hu walking with Muslim minorities in Gansu 16. Hu meeting Tibetan man 17. Zoom out Hu and Tibetan man CCTV FILE Lhasa, Tibet - 22 July 2001 18. Military officers greeting Hu as he returns to Tibet for 50th anniversary of what China calls the "Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" 19. Hu shaking hands with military officers 20. Tracking shot monks holding Hada scarfs in their hands 21. Pan left from Hu speaking to the official 11th Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu APTN Beijing - 4 November 2002 22. SOUNDBITE (English) Jasper Becker, Author of "The Chinese": "People like Hu Jintao, their formative years were under Mao during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and most of them grew up as pretty much imbued with anti-Americanism, a strong belief in Mao, a belief in a strong state." CCTV FILE Beijing - 10 May 1999 23. UPSOUND (Mandarin) Hu Jintao, Chinese vice president, Hu giving national address on NATO bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade, overnight May 7,8, 2002 "We strongly condemn the US-led NATO barbarians' behaviour." APTN Beijing - Recent 24. Mid shot of policemen directing traffic at the gates of the Communist Central Party School 25. Mid shot of rock with school name carved into it POOL Beijing - 5 March 2002 26. Wide exterior shot of Party school APTN Beijing - 4 November 2002 27. SOUNDBITE (English) Jasper Becker, Author of "The Chinese": "One idea is that they basically would like to turn the Communist Party into a sort of Social Democratic Party but without having too much of the Democracy there. So it's clear that he's (Hu) someone who's been given the role to think about these things but what he himself would think about it or whether he himself would take any risks, we don't know but most people suspect he isn't going to do that and in fact he won't have the opportunity as long as Jiang Zemin is around." APTN Beijing - 8 November 2002 27. Wide shot of the opening ceremony of the National People's Congress 28. Mid shot of Hu (in the middle) sitting down STORYLINE: The man expected to be China's next leader became the only top politician re-elected to the Communist Party's ruling elite on Thursday, the most solid sign yet of Hu Jintao's ascent to the acme of Asia's largest, fastest-growing country. As China's 16th National Party Congress ended, the official Xinhua News Agency said President Jiang Zemin's name was not on the list of those re-elected, indicating his expected retirement from a formal party role. Five of his colleagues also were not re-elected, Xinhua said in what appears to be the first orderly transfer of power since the communists took China in 1949. Xinhua specifically identified 59-year-old Vice President Hu as "the only member" of the previous party congress' Standing Committee to be re-elected to the Central Committee. The Standing Committee of the party's Politburo is the inner circle of party leadership - and, by extension, the leadership of China. Hu is expected to become general secretary, though the details of exactly when he will be elected by his peers remained unclear Thursday afternoon. Jiang, 76, general secretary of the Communist Party since he replaced Zhao Ziyang in a 1989 purge after the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, will remain president until March. Hu, was designated as Jiang's heir apparent by the late senior leader Deng Xiaoping. His ascent has been widely expected, though little is known about him. He has taken on a higher profile in recent months and traveled to the United States in the spring, a signal that he was being readied. The former hydropower engineer was elected to the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee in 1992 becoming its youngest member. A colleague from his days at the Central Youth Committee recalled a person who was down to earth and sharp. Nevertheless, Hu had no notable record of accomplishment in his previous posts. However, as Party Secretary for the Tibet province Hu attracted controversy by declaring Martial law in Lhasa, capital of Tibet in March 1989. It was the first time martial law had ever been enforced in the People's Republic of China and set a precedent for the declaration of martial law in Beijing two months later. Little is known of where Hu is likely to take China in the future. Though none have suggested that he harbours any surprising liberal views, Hu seemed to have begun looking elsewhere for models of a socialist order. According to Jasper Becker, author of "The Chinese", Hu had encouraged members of the Central Party school, to look at other left wing socialist parties and see what China could learn from them. Left wing philosophers from Germany and France have been invited to lecture at the school. Wherever it is that Hu wants to take China, foreign analysts say the new generation clearly see the system needs wholesale change. Politically, members of the younger generation are believed to be trying to mix in elements of democracy to stay in touch with the masses while keeping the Communist Party in overall control. What seems increasingly clear is that Hu Jintao is unlikely to effect much change so long as Jiang Zemin remains, albeit behind the scenes, ever watchful. China's rulers say they want to convey a sense of calm and thoughtfulness at the top so money from abroad continues pouring in, raising living standards and keeping people happy - or at least unwilling to oppose party rule.