çin'deki yeni politbüro'da kim kimdir (the times)

Li Keqiang
Age: 57
Considered the most highly educated on the new Standing Committee and is now almost certain to become the next Premier after Wen Jiabao steps down in March next year. Like Hu Jintao, Mr Li rose from the Communist Youth League, and the organisation still represents his strongest power base. Served as party secretaries of Henan province and Liaoning during his rise.

Holds a Ph.D in economics and before 2007 was widely regarded as the prime candidate to succeed Hu as president. Mr Li was suddenly swapped into second position behind Xi at the 17th party congress: plenty of rumours about what was going on behind the scenes, but nobody is quite sure what brought the change about.
Zhang Dejiang
Age: 66
After graduating from Yanbian University in China’s northeastern province of Jilin, Mr Zhang headed over the border to take an economics degree at the Kim Il Sung University in North Korea.
Ascent through the party ranks took him back to Jilin, then on to Zhejiang and the industrial heartland of Guangdong. Has been in charge of telecoms, energy and transport industries - the areas of state-owned industry that may become the first targets of reform. After the downfall of Bo Xilai as party chief in Chongqing, Mr Zhang was drafted-in as a caretaker boss of the massive southwestern metropolis.
Liu Yunshan
Age: 65
A hardliner supposedly part of Jiang Zemin’s faction, but with close ties to Hu Jintao. Like Xi Jinping, he was among the “sent-down” youth dispatched to work in rural communes during the Cultural Revolution.
Mr Liu started his career as a schoolteacher in Inner Mongolia before embarking on a party career that took him through various sections of the party’s local - and later national - propaganda machine. Worked his way up through the ranks of the Chinese Communist Youth League, which was also Hu’s power base.
Yu Zhengsheng
Age: 67
Born in Zhejiang and a “princeling” Yu Zhengsheng graduated from Harbin’s Military Engineering Institute as an expert in ballistic missile control systems. Began his career working in radio factories before taking a job as a technician at the Research Institute for the Promotion and Application of Electronic Technology.
Later served as mayor of Yantai and Qingdao, both cities in Shandong. His great uncle was defence minister under Chiang Kai-shek, while his father was the ex-husband of Jiang Qing the woman who later became Mao Zedong’s wife. His brother defected to the US in the 1980s. Became minister of construction in 1998 and became party boss of Shanghai in 2007.
Wang Qishan
Age: 64
The son-in-law of Yao Yilin, a former vice-premier. Firmly in the princeling class, and famed for a straight talking style.
Worked as Governor of one of China’s “big four” state-owned banks in the 1990s, and was mayor of Beijing when the deadly SARS virus struck in 2003. Previously Mr Wang was considered the senior politician most likely to deal at a practical level with any banking, financial or currency reform. However, it emerged this week that he will be in charge of the party’s internal discipline watchdog.
Zhang Gaoli
Age: 66
A protégé of Jiang Zemin and an economist, Zhang Gaoli spent his early career in the oil industry. Worked his way up through the party via Guangdong province just as the industrial heartland in the south was starting to hum. During his time as party chief of Shenzen, he is considered responsible for turning what used to be a frontier town into a booming exemplar of Jiang Zemin’s model for economic development. Later became party secretary of Shandong province.