China Starts Change of Leader

World | March 5, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

The annual meeting of China's parliament has opened for a session which is due to bring forward a new generation of leaders to guide the world's most populous nation. Almost 3,000 delegates to the largely toothless National People's Congress, or NPC, gathered amid stifling security in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. They are almost certain to approve a series of top-level changes including the accession of Vice President Hu Jintao to the presidency in place of Jiang Zemin.

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