Xinhua Insight: China's new leadership to surface(2)

The president nominates candidates for State Council premier.

The premier nominates candidates for the State Council's vice premiers, state councilors, ministers for government departments, ministers in charge of commissions of the State Council, governor of the People's Bank of China and auditor-general, as well as the State Council's secretary-general.

The chairperson of the PRC Central Military Commission nominates candidates for vice chairpersons and members of the Central Military Commission.

The 18th CPC National Congress said that at this stage, the CPC's task should be ensuring the formation of a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2020, making the next five years highly important.

The Party congress unveiled a new CPC leadership, with Xi Jinping elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission.

The upcoming unveiling of the new generation of state leaders and CPPCC leaders has drawn wide attention, said Xie Chuntao, a professor at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

It is believed that the new leadership will be a group that is well-educated and has experienced the entire process of reform and opening up, Xie said.

It is believed that they will unswervingly adhere to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and vigorously promote reform and opening up, Xie added.

The past decade has seen rapid development in China.

Huang Jihua, a 51-year-old villager from east China's Anhui Province, is one of many Chinese who have benefited from the country's progress.

Through farming, Huang now makes an annual net income of nearly 1 million yuan (160,700 U.S. dollars), a sharp contrast to the less than 10,000 yuan he made annually back in the 1990s.

The Chinese government abolished agricultural taxes in 2006 and has provided farmers with subsidies in order to make their profession profitable, Huang said.

More than 800 million people across the country have joined the new rural cooperative medical system, facilitating medical service in rural areas.