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Tsinghua clique | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Xi Jinping &Hu Jintao |
| Members | Zhu Rongji Lin Wenyi Wang Qishan Liu Yandong Chen Xi Li Xi Hu Heping Chen Jining Zhang Guoqing |
| Founded | 1947 (Kuomintang) 2008 (Communist) |
| Dissolved | c. 1970s (Kuomintang) |
| Headquarters | Communist: Beijing Kuomintang: Nanking (to 1949) Taipei (from 1949) |
| Newspaper | People's Daily |
| Ideology | Communists: Chinese communism Socialism with Chinese characteristics Scientific Outlook on Development Xi Jinping Thought Populism Chinese nationalism Kuomintang: Three Principles of the People Chinese nationalism Anti-communism |
The termTsinghua clique refers to a group ofChinese Communist Party (CCP) politicians that have graduated or have taught atTsinghua University (Chinese:清华大学;pinyin:Qīnghuá Dàxué). They are members of thefourth generation of Chinese leadership, and are purported to hold powerful reformist ideas (a number have studied in theUnited States following graduation from Tsinghua, and some are said to be influenced by the reform ideals ofHu Yaobang). Just like their predecessors, they attach great importance to socialism with Chinese characteristics. Their ascendance to power is likely to have begun in 2008 at the CCP's17th National Congress.[citation needed]
Many Tsinghua graduates rise to political prominence. Among the 7 standing committees at thePolitburo, there is one Tsinghua graduate; among the 25 Politburo committee members, there are three.[citation needed]
Key figures are reported to currently include:
Retired or deceased:
The Tsinghua clique also referred to a group ofNationalist Chinese politicians who held high power in theRepublic of China government and fled toTaiwan with the government during theChinese Civil War. All of them are deceased: