BEIJING: Xi Jinping’s new chief of staff is the highest ranking Communist Party official in four decades to take the job - in a sign of the Chinese leader’s tightening grip on power in the world’s No. 2 economy.
Former Beijing party boss Cai Qi was named head of the party Central Committee’s General Office, a key position that handles administrative and logistical matters.
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