Hu heads top CPC group, four new faces added
22/10/2007 13:26
Hu Jintao was elected today as the chief of the Communist Party of China
for the second term at the plenary session of the 17th CPC Central Committee.
Other members of the newly elected Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the 17th CPC Central Committee are Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li
Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang.
Hu, 64,
succeeded Jiang Zemin as Party leader at the 16th CPC National Congress in
November 2002. Hu was elected a member of the Political Bureau Standing
Committee of the CPC Central Committee in 1992, at the age of 49.
Four
other members of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the 16th CPC Central
Committee, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun, were reelected
into the top echelon today.
Wu, 66, has been chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National People's Congress since 2003.
Wen, 65, serves
as Chinese Premier.
Jia, 67, is chairman of the National Committee of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Li, 63, is in charge
of CPC's publicity and ideological work.
The newly elected Political
Bureau Standing Committee also consists of four new members-- Xi Jinping, Li
Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang.
Xi, 54, is the Party chief of
Shanghai while Li Keqiang, 52, is the Party chief in Liaoning Province.
Xi was a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee and alternate member
of the 15th CPC Central Committee.
Li Keqiang was a member of the 16th
and 15th CPC central committees.
He Guoqiang, 63, is head of the
Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
Zhou, 64, is
minister of public security.
Both He and Zhou were members of the
Political Bureau of the 16th CPC Central Committee since 2002.
Three members of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the 16th CPC
Central Committee, 68-year-old Zeng Qinghong, 69-year-old Wu Guanzheng and
72-year-old Luo Gan, are not in the new CPC central committee elected yesterday.
Hu was also named chairman of the Communist Party of China Central
Military Commission at the first plenary session of the 17th CPC Central
Committee today.
Hu succeeded Jiang Zemin as chairman of the CPC Central
Military Commission in September 2004 after Jiang resigned. Before that Hu had
been vice chairman of the commission since 1999.
Hu was an alternate
member and member of the 12th CPC Central Committee, and has been a member of
the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
since 1992.
A native of Jixi County, Anhui Province, Hu was born in
December 1942. In 1959, he was enrolled by Qinghua University and graduated from
the Hydraulic Engineering Department in 1965. He joined the Party in April 1964.
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