He was promoted to ever higher party positions until he became first secretary in 1988.
Under a special charter exemption, Council members may hold district leaderships but not higher party office.
The meeting statement called for more merit-based selection of leaders and new ways to make lower-level voices heard in higher party councils.
Would the same be true of the minutes of important meetings at the highest party levels?
Still, they know that last year's blobby thigh-high party dresses need to be replaced with something.
the tricky thing is that in an era of extremely high party line voting, turnout becomes enormously important.
Two years ago, he was singled out by high party officials as someone who would continue to be blacklisted in the Soviet Union.
Courts in China are under the party's thumb, and verdicts in cases such as Mr Bo's will be decided by high party officials.
It is very characteristic that Lenin addressed to the party congress as the highest party organ his last articles, letters and remarks.
The coming battle appears to pit younger bureaucrats, many of whom have worked their way up from local and provincial posts, against the children of high party officials.
He was stripped of his high party and government posts sometime in the years 1967 69, after which he disappeared from public view.
