18th National Congress Of Chinese Communist Party Opens At Great Hall Of People In Beijing

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 8, 2012. <AP Photo/Ng Han Guan> <Xinhua/Li Xueren>

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin reacts during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Preparing to hand over power after a decade in office, China’s President Hu Jintao called Thursday for sterner measures to combat official corruption that has stoked public anger while urging the Communist Party to maintain firm political control.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping attends the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. The weeklong congress starts a carefully choreographed but still fraught power transfer in which President Hu Jintao and most of the senior leadership will begin to relinquish office to a new slate of leaders for the coming decade headed by the appointed heir, Vice President Xi Jinping. <AP Photo/Ng Han Guan>

Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese president, delivers a keynote report during the opening ceremony of the 18th CPC National Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 8, 2012. The 18th CPC National Congress was opened in Beijing on Thursday. <Xinhua/Rao Aimin>