Zeng Qinghong was appointed vice-president in March 2003
Three of China's most senior leaders, including Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, are to step down.
Zeng and two other politicians, Luo Gan and Wu Guanzheng, were dropped from the Communist Party's central committee at its five-yearly congress.
The announcement is seen as the first stage in a widely expected reshuffle in favour of a new generation of leaders.
The three men cannot now be elected to the standing committee on Monday when their replacements will be named.
The nine-member standing committee is the country's supreme decision-making body. A fourth member, Huang Ju, died in the summer and will also be replaced.
The congress also decided to include President Hu Jintao's "scientific concept of development" in the party constitution.
President Hu is widely expected to be given a second term as general secretary of the party when the central committee meets on Monday.
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