Sixth-Generation rising stars need military, space experience on their resumes

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Having attained notable achievements in the anti-corruption crusade, President and Party General Secretary Xi Jinping is turning his attention to grooming future leaders.

Zhang Qingwei is a former top manager in China’s space program.

Dozens of Sixth-Generation officials, or those born in the 1960s, will be inducted into the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and Politburo at the 19th Party Congress of slated for 2017.

The late 2010s will witness the gradual shift of power from the Fifth-Generation leadership headed by President Xi and Premier Li Keqiang to the Sixth-Generation leadership.

An unprecedented number of cadres and state entrepreneurs who had distinguished themselves in the military-and-space industrial complex have been transferred from PLA-related institutions to party and government posts.

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