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A rising star hits his ceiling

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A rising star, tipped by some for the very top, just got shot down in Xi Jinping's China.

On Thursday, Lu Hao, Minister of Natural Resources, was reassigned to become Party secretary of the State Council's Development Research Center (DRC).

His new gig: The DRC is the government’s in-house th...