On October 22, 2007, after the First Plenary Session of the 17th CCP Central Committee, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang were both elected to the Politburo Standing Committee. Xi Jinping ranked sixth but stood in front, and the outside world saw him as the successor to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao.
At the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping, with a narrow advantage, entered the Politburo Standing Committee along with Li Keqiang, becoming Hu Jintao's successor, while Bo Xilai only made it to the Politburo.
On October 16, 2007, the inspection squad of the Zhabei Branch went to Beijing to visit Yang Jia and his mother, Wang Jingmei. Yang Jia demanded that the police pay 10,000 yuan in compensation. The inspection squad did not agree, nor did it discipline any police officer.
After dawn on October 6, 2007, Yang Jia left the police station and took a train back to Beijing. From that day on, he repeatedly filed complaints through petition letters and emails with the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and the inspection department of the Zhabei Branch, demanding the dismissal of the officers involved, compensation for emotional distress, and reimbursement of telephone charges. After investigation, the inspection detachment of the Zhabei Branch concluded that the officers' law enforcement was not improper, and the complaint received no apology whatsoever.
On the evening of October 5, 2007, Yang Jie was sightseeing in Shanghai. Riding a rented bicycle past the intersection of Zhijiang West Road and Pushan Road in Zhabei District, he was stopped by officers from the Zhijiang West Road police station and taken into the station for questioning until the early hours of October 6. He said he was insulted and beaten inside the station, which was the starting point of his nonstop complaints over the following year.
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In 2007, Xi Jinping succeeded Zeng Qinghong as the head of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, serving in this position for five years until he ascended to the top leadership in 2012.