'Global Times', the subsidiary affiliate of the CCP mouthpiece 'People's Daily' on September 9, 2014, referred to a 'Nanjing-based Xinhua Daily news-item of September 5, 2014. The Nanfang-based Xinhua Daily, while reporting on the funeral of Cao Keming, former Secretary of the CCP CC's Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee, listed Hu Jintao's name behind those of the incumbent members of the CCP CC Political Bureau (PB). Since 2012, Hu Jintao's name has usually been listed after those of the incumbent Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC).  

A distinction was made between Xi Jinping and the other PBSC and PB members by mentioning Xi Jinping's name and his mourning for Cao Keming in a separate sentence at the beginning of the report. The names of other members of the Political Bureau were listed as a group in the following sentence.