According to informed academic observers such as Cheng Li, a scholar at Brookings Institution, and Susan Shirk of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, rise in the Chinese political system and selection to the Standing Committee depends more on family connections and loyalty to powerful patrons than on ability.
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They conferred with Liu Yunshan, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China.
However, Hu was much less fortunate than Qiao Shi, the other member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee who opposed the use of force by not voting: unlike Qiao Shi who retained his post, Hu was then kicked out from the Politburo Standing Committee after the fall of general secretary Zhao Ziyang.
Former NPC(National People's Congress) chairman and member of the Standing Committee of the political Bureau(Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China), Li Peng, danced Baishou Dance at Taohuayuan Square with his Youyang folks during his visit in 2001, Dec.