Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun have been elected Sunday morning into the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party's top decision-making body.

Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng and Luo Gan are not in the new central committee.

Zeng Qinghong is 68 years old, Wu Guanzheng, 69, and Luo Gan, 72. They were members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 16th CPC Central Committee.

Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng and Luo Gan sat in the front row ofthe podium as executive members of the presidium of the congress.

(Xinhua News Agency October 21, 2007)