Политбюро Компартии Китая предложило открыть XIX съезд КПК 18 октября

Chinese Communist Party leaders attend the opening session of 18th Communist Party Congress, while Hu Jintao, no in the picture, Chinese president and current Chinese Communist Party general secretary, reads a work report, whose seat is seen empty in the center of front row, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Preparing to hand over power after a decade in office, China's President Hu Jintao called Thursday for sterner measures to combat official corruption that has stoked public anger while urging the Communist Party to maintain firm political control. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)