China Vice President out of new lineup
China's Communists began winding up a five-yearly Congress on Sunday by announcing the Vice President was out of the new Party lineup, making way for President Hu Jintao to install potential successors.

Vice President Zeng Qinghong, 68, was not on the newly elected Central Committee -- a council of some 200 full members -- Xinhua news agency reported.

Zeng was a powerful Party organization boss long associated with Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin.

Zeng's departure from the Committee along with two other leaders indicates Hu will be able to announce the promotion of potential successors soon after the Congress ends.

Security chief Luo Gan, 72, and anti-corruption boss Wu Guanzheng, 69, were also off the list for the new Committee, Xinhua said.

Vice Premier Wu Yi -- one of the few women in China's political elite and an experienced trade tsar -- was left off as well, indicating she will also soon leave government.

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