2:03pm

Thu November 8, 2012
Asia

In China, A Transition Of Power Begins

Originally published on Thu November 8, 2012 3:27 pm

The handover, only the second orderly transition of power in China under communist rule, began Thursday. Party leaders kicked off a weeklong congress that will end with President Hu Jintao handing power to Xi Jinping. NPR's Shanghai correspondent Frank Langfitt talks about China's new leaders.