Special Report: NPC, CPPCC Annual Sessions 2008

Hu Jintao -- President of People's Republic of China, chairman of Central Military Commission
 

Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is reelected president of the country and chairman of the Central Military Commission of China during the fifth plenary meeting of the NPC session in Beijing, capital of China, March 15, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was reelected president of the country Saturday morning at the ongoing session of the 11th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.

    Hu, born in 1942, had been China's president since March 2003.

Xi Jinping elected Chinese vice-president

    BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping was elected vice-president of China at the ongoing session of the 11th National People's Congress Saturday morning.

    Xi, born in 1953, is one of the nine members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China(CPC) Central Committee, and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. Full story