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)

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.

Source: Xinhua