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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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