New CPC top leaders meet the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, October 22, 2007. [Xinhua]

Hu Jintao, elected for another five years as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) Central Committee, led a new line-up of CPC top leaders to meet the press at the Great Hall of the People Monday morning.

The new line-up of the Political Bureau's Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, closely watched by the world, consists of nine persons. They are: Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang.

A new CPC Central Committee was elected Sunday morning at the closing session of the 17th CPC National Congress.

The CPC on Sunday enshrined the Scientific Outlook on Development and other strategic thoughts into its constitution at the closing meeting of the congress.

The move signals the Party's determination to promote more coordinated development based on social harmony, environmental protection and energy conservation in addition to economic expansion.

The Scientific Outlook on Development takes development as its essence, puts people first as its core and takes comprehensive, balanced and sustainable growth as its basic requirement and overall consideration as its fundamental approach, General Secretary Hu said.

Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang entered the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party's top leadership, Hu said.

Hu said that Xi, 54, and Li, 52, are relatively young. The two political stars are now serving as Party secretaries of Shanghai and Liaoning respectively.

He Guoqiang, 63, is head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Zhou, 64, is minister of public security.