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Besides, many leaders among the new team have the experience of working in the local province and municipality as the No. One officials like Wu Bangguo and Huang Ju who came from Shanghai. The highest priority of local governments has been given to attract foreign capital and promote local economic prosperity. This may suggest that they would prefer a more open-minded, less ideological attitude toward both domestic and foreign policies. Joseph Fewsmith at Boston University has described the new China's leadership in these words, "All fit within the 'technocratic' mold -- people for whom ideology is not a big problem but who look for the 'right' answer and try to impose it." .
"key within key" in the new leadership's foreign policy.
At the level of broad goals, the future foreign policy of China will be hardly distinguishable from that of the past decades, even though a shift in China's leadership has taken place recently. To such a big country, China must ensure its policy continuity. It is very necessary for Chinese leaders to take the stable and transparent and predictable policies in domestic and foreign affairs. Any dramatic shift of China's foreign policy will bring many negative results to China's development, and worsen its investment environment, even lead foreign capital to escape from China. Therefore, Hu Jintao and his team certainly continue to carry out the independent and peaceful foreign policy that late Deng Xiaoping outlined and advocated and implement a strategy of economic growth prior to all others. Because US holds dual roles as a great power and as a big market in keeping the bilateral relations with China, China-U.S. relations are still the "key within key" in the new leadership's foreign policy during a long period of time. China's national interests need the new China's leaders to focus on relationship between China and US. It is also beneficial to the world peace and international security.
