BEIJING -- Rumors are circulating that Wang Huning, a key policy adviser to President Xi Jinping and his predecessors, could step down from the Communist Party's top decision-making body at the national congress that kicked off Sunday.
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Wang Huning, center, was named secretary-general of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. (Photo by Yusuke Hinada)
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