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By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com

The four-month-old Xi Jinping administration is frank about the future of reform, particularly political liberalization: do not expect anything.

This was revealed by the Government Work Report read out on March 5 by Premier Wen Jiabao, who is due to retire when the on-going National People’s Congress (NPC) closes on the 17th.

During much of his ten-year tenure as premier as well as the third-ranked member of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), Wen was the only Politburo-level official who still talked passionately about political reform.

In his swansong speech to the NPC, China’s legislature, however, the 70-year-old “Grandpa Wen” failed to make a single reference to political reform.

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