Politics

Hu Jintao was elected as the chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the second term at the first plenum of the 17th CPC Central Committee. Members of the newly elected Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th CPC Central Committee are Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang, and Zhou Yongkang. New faces in the pinnacle Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee are Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang. At this plenum, Hu Jintao was also named chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Military Commission.

China will hold a nationwide examination on December 9 to recruit civil servants for the central government, according to the Ministry of Personnel. The online registration system will be opened to the public from October 23 to November 2, and applicants can log on www.mop.gov.cn to complete their registration. This is one of the hottest competitions in China, and more than 530,000 applicants contested for 12,700 jobs last year, about 42 people competing for each job on average, according to the statistics of the ministry. China has been organizing civil servant recruitment examinations every year since 1994.