Transcript: Profile: Efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to adapt to a 21st century Chinese society

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Profile: Efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to adapt to a 21st century Chinese society

Host: LYNN NEARY Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

LYNN NEARY, host:

Tomorrow, China's Communist Party will formally reveal its new leaders, the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes jockeying for power. A new generation is taking over. None of them are expected to stray far from the path of outgoing President Jiang Zemin. But among the rank-and-file of the Communist Party, changes are afoot, as NPR's Rob Gifford discovered when he visited the Beijing Communist Party School.

ROB GIFFORD reporting:

Hundreds of Communist Party officials sit in a darkened room ...

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