Zhang Dejiang, the current leader of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing sought on Thursday to bury the legacy of its disgraced former top official Bo Xilai.<br/> <br />Bo arrived in Chongqing in 2007, pumping money into social housing schemes and advanced infrastructure.<br/> <br />It became a bold, alternative mode of growth for China known as the "Chongqing model".<br/> <br />Bo was once a contender for top leadership in China, but was ousted following a scandal in which his wife murdered British businessman Neil Heywood.<br/> <br />Dejiang said he did not know when Bo would be tried, but was sure that Bo's model for Chongqing didn't really exist.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY OF CHONGQING MUNICIPALITY, ZHANG DEJIANG, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Firstly, I don't know when they will try Bo Xilai. This is a judicial question, and it has already entered a judicial process. Secondly, the policy of reform and opening up for Chongqing will not change. Thirdly, you asked about the so-called Chongqing model. I think that there is no such thing as the Chongqing model."<br/> <br />The comments come as China's 18th Party Congress meets to usher in new president Xi Jinping and a new line-up for China's Communist Party, who will decide the country's future direction.
