Rising stars give hope to China's marginalized Youth League faction

New generation of alumni born in 1980s start filling high-level posts

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Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua, left, holds a news conference in London with Philip Hammond, then the British chancellor of the exchequer, in June 2019. Hu belongs to the Youth League faction and has long been seen as a possible future premier. © Reuters

SHUNSUKE TABETA, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- Young talent from the Communist Youth League of China has quietly risen through the Communist Party's ranks, setting the stage for a future comeback by a faction that once produced top leaders but has been largely sidelined under President Xi Jinping.

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