FILE PHOTO 21AUG97 - Chinese Premier Li Peng (L) greets economic tsar and Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji (R) during a reception in Beijing. The National People's Congress, or parliament, is scheduled to open its annual session on March 5 and expected to endorse Zhu Rongji as Premier, replacing Li Peng. Li is required by the constitution to step down at the end of his second five-year term this year. The man in the middle is Li Lanqing, one of six vice-premiers.

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