China's Premier Li Keqiang and Xi Jinping's No. 2 is out of a job as four senior officials not in new leadership line-up in major reshuffle


Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang (left) and China's Premier Li Keqiang attend the closing ceremony of the 20th Chinese Communist Party's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Saturday, October 22, 2022. Both have been booted out of Congress' top committee and will be forced to retire. - AFP

BEIJING, Oct 22 (The Straits Times/ANN): Four of the current seven supreme leaders ruling China, including Premier Li Keqiang and fourth-ranked Wang Yang, look set to retire in a surprising major reshuffle that will allow President Xi Jinping to surround himself with his allies.

Both Li and Wang’s names did not appear in a list of the newly elected 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

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