China official shows off rare public trait: charm (AP)

Sunday, March 7th, 2010 | Business with Comments Off

Bo Xilai, center, party secretary of the western city of Chongqing, is surrounded by members of the media upon arrival for a Chongqing delegation meeting of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Bo is the rare official in China with a strong public personality, which could help him with media and popular attention but might not help him within the upper levels of the conservative, ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP – He arrived to the squeals of crushed reporters, who crammed into an entryway of China’s Great Hall of the People to see one of the country’s potential leaders.


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