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(11 Mar 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Wide interior of Great Hall of the People
2. Zoom in to Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member Yu Zhengsheng walking towards podium and voting
3. Wide of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) delegates voting
4. Former NBA (National Basketball Association) player Yao Ming after voting
5. Zoom in to CPPCC delegate Gyaincain Norbu, China's designated 11th Panchen Lama
6. Filmmaker Chen Kaige (first right, seated) with other delegates
7. Photographers following voting procedures
8. Wide interior of the Great Hall of the People
9. Screen showing results for election of chairman of the standing committee of the CPPCC: Yu Zhengsheng gets 2,188 votes for, 4 against and 1 abstention
10. Yu Zhengsheng bowing, shaking hands with outgoing chairman Jia Qinglin
11. Wide of delegates applauding
12. Wide of Yu and Jia shaking hands
13. Screen showing results for election of vice chairman of the standing committee of the CPPCC: Ling Jihua, China's President trusted secretary involved in a political scandal, gets 90 votes against
14. Ling, head of China's Communist Party United Front Work Department
15. Delegates following reading of results
16. Jia and Yu shaking delegates' hands and leaving stage
17. Wide interior of the Great Hall of the People
STORYLINE
China took another step towards completing its leadership handover on Monday with the appointment of an official best known for his communist pedigree to head a top government advisory body.
Yu Zhengsheng was selected by a vote of 2,188 to 4 to head the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a companion body to the country's rubber-stamp legislature.
There was no other candidate in the CPPCC vote.
Yu's selection is the latest step in China's once-a-decade political transition and kicks off a week of formal government leadership changes that were foreshadowed by promotions at the Communist Party's congress in November.
In China, the party is the pre-eminent political power and top government posts are held by its leaders.
Yu was among seven leaders who ascended to the party's top inner circle at the November conclave which also appointed Xi Jinping as general secretary.
Yu is ranked fourth in the party.
The governor of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, was named one of the vice chairmen of the advisory body, suggesting that he might be preparing to leave the central bank after 11 years at the helm.
In one of the session's more interesting vote counts, scandal-tainted politician Ling Jihua, formerly a top aide to President Hu Jintao, was among a few who received more than just a handful of opposing votes.
Ninety ballots were cast against his appointment as one of the vice chairmen, although he got through anyway with more than 2,000 votes in his favour.
The votes against Ling could be a sign of damage to his reputation caused by reports of a lurid scandal involving his son, who apparently died after crashing in a speeding Ferrari whilst playing some kind of high-speed sex game a year ago in Beijing.
This week, the largely ceremonial legislature known as the National People's Congress will finalise the transition and approve appointments to top government posts: Xi is certain to succeed Hu as president, while Li Keqiang, the party's number two, is to be named premier, in charge of the Cabinet.
A rising middle class, empowered by social networking technology, is increasingly vocal about its demands for change and willing to organise demonstrations to that effect.
Yu's father was the ex-husband of a woman who later married Mao.


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