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SCMP Reporter

Delegates to China’s Communist Party congress offered the first clues to a generational leadership succession on Wednesday after a preliminary vote tapped Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang as anointed successors for President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
In a brief dispatch, Xinhua news agency said Vice-President Xi and Vice-Premier Li had both been elected to the party’s Central Committee at the end of a key congress, though that result was never really in any doubt.
The 2,270 carefully vetted delegates cast their votes behind closed doors in Beijing’s cavernous Great Hall of the People for the new Central Committee, a ruling council with around 200 full members and 170 or so alternate members with no voting rights.
In a rare move, the state news agency live-blogged the closing session on its website and sent out English- and Chinese-language updates on Twitter and its Sina Weibo accounts. 
Hu Jintao cast a vote in election for CPC Central Committee, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. twitter.com/XHNews/status/…
	— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 14, 2012

Xi Jinping cast a vote in election for CPC Central Committee, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. twitter.com/XHNews/status/…
	— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 14, 2012

Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang were elected into 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at the national congress.
	— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 14, 2012

Wang Qishan, Liu Yunshan, Liu Yandong, Li Yuanchao, Wang Yang, Zhang Gaoli, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng in new CPC Central Committee.
	— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 14, 2012

Wang Qishan elected into new Central Committee of Communist Party of China, also into new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
	— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) November 14, 2012
 
Xinhua had also tweeted the opening ceremony last week. Despite all the updates on Twitter, there was no mention that the service is blocked on the Chinese mainland - a point brought up by one journalist:
@xhnews Shame on you Xinhua for tweeting without mentioning Twitter being blocked in China.
	— Bai Bin (@baibinbeijing) November 13, 2012
The People's Daily website also seems to be live-blogging the announcements [in Chinese].
Here's a look at what others on Twitter are saying about the party congress: 

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Delegates line up to cast their ballots during the closing session of the party congress. Photo: Xinhua

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