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China¡¯s Leadership Transition: Implication for China-US Relations Approaching the new China¡¯s leadership At the Sixteenth Congress of CCP in November 2002 and the 10th National People's Congress in March 2003, China completed a smooth transition from the Jiang Zemin¡¯s team to the Hu Jintao¡¯s team. It was China's first orderly transfer of authority since 1949. Most old Chinese leaders with whom the western countries are familiar will wane naturally from public sight. There is an interesting phenomenon in the new China¡¯s leadership. Nine members of Political Bureau Standing Committee of CCP, who are regarded as the center of China¡¯s political decision-making by the American China¡¯s experts, are all engineers with professional skill in certain field and with the education background of studying science and technology. None of them has worked in the department of foreign affairs for a long time. They seem to have little diplomatic experience of dealing with the outside world. Therefore, some American scholars, such as Pei Minxin and Michael Swaine from Carnegie, are afraid that China will increase political instability and face the governance