Xi Jinping on Track To Succeed Hu Jintao as China's President

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China's Communist Party has placed Vice President Xi Jinping, bottom left, on a track to the country's next president.

Xi is from Shaanxi province and has long been assumed to be the successor to President Hu Jintao, top left.

Hu will step down as Communist Party leader in 2012 and as president the following year. (Wash Post, 10/19/2010)