Hu, 60, succeeds Jiang Zemin, 76, who held two consecutive five-year terms as Chinese president.
Hu Jintao was chosen for a second-five year term by the Communist Party of China in October as its General Secretary, a position that automatically takes the incumbent to the Presidency. Saturday's election only cements the formality. The Chinese Parliament also sealed the appointment of his likely successor Xi Jinping as Vice President.
Hu, 79, sitting next to President Xi Jinping in the front row with other top leaders at the ornate Great Hall of People was persuaded to leave the meeting by two men, presumably security guards.
Chinese President Hu Jintao will undertake a state visit to the US from January 18-21 at the invitation of his American counterpart Barack Obama, a foreign ministry announced in Beijing on Friday.
China's first successful manual docking mission has showcased the country's full command of space technologies, President Hu Jintao said on Tuesday.
Despite the differences, in order to enhance its own growing national aspirations, it will be in India's larger interest to use this visit to forge a mature, pragmatic relationship with another emerging power.
The Chinese President Hu Jintao was accorded a red carpet welcome by the United States after he arrived on a four-day state visit, even as lawmakers introduced a legislation against yuan manipulation.
Sino-Indian strategic relations are expected to get further fillip during the second innings of Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao, who is all set to offer a red carpet welcome to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Beijing this week.
'Tibetans living in Tibet are forbidden from raising their voices against China's illegal occupation of our country. Therefore, I must use mine.'
The statement says the new phase in ties between the nations beginning today will enhance cooperation in 10 sectors including the economy and defence
The Chinese Communist Party Congress -- that will undertake the once-in-a-decade leadership change -- opened in Beijing on Thursday with outgoing President Hu Jintao issuing a stark warning against corruption in the party ranks. In his work report outlining the decade-long achievement of the party under his leadership, Hu said the Party must make unremitting efforts to combat corruption, promote integrity and stay vigilant against degeneration.
Will heads roll after Hu's return? Will the rolling heads be confined to Urumqi or will they cover Beijing too? Is the situation in Xinjiang likely to weaken Hu's leadership of the CCP? These are questions for which one has to look for answers in the days to come.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday met Chinese President Hu Jintao and discussed the entire gamut of bilateral issues, particularly trade and investments.
Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping was on Monday promoted and made vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission of the ruling Communist party, in clear indications that he will succeed Chinese President and party chief Hu Jintao in 2012.
Hu, also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China, will attend the multilateral meeting of leaders of five developing countries -- India, Brazil, China, Mexico and South Africa on June 8.
Guo Qinglan the 91-year-old widow of revered Indian doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis, who saved hundreds of lives of Chinese soldiers during World War II, may be the oldest member of Chinese President Hu Jinato's entourage to India.
The leaders will discuss the entire gamut of bilateral ties and review progress on talks to resolve the boundary question and other issues.
The UPA government has been seeking to build new relations with all countries, including China.
Outgoing Chinese President Hu Jintao has formally relinquished his role at the top of the ruling Communist Party, clearing the way for Xi Jinping to take over as the country's new leader.
President Barack Obama in officially welcoming Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House at an elaborate South Lawn ceremony harked by to the visit 30 years ago by then President Deng Xiaoping and predicted Hu's visit could set the tone for the next three decades of US-China relations.
He was given a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan
"In our position, the whole of the state of Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory. And Tawang is only one of the places in it. We are claiming all of that. That is our position," Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Yuxi said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has warned the United States to keep away from Tibet or else bilateral ties would be greatly affected, a day after his American counterpart Barack Obama asked him to talk to representatives of the Dalai Lama to resolve the issue.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is all set to succeed Jiang Zemin as the Chairman of the State Central Military Commission (CMC), further consolidating his grip on power in world's most populous nation.
It is not the border, nor Tibet and the Dalai Lama issue, but the growing relationship between Pakistan and China which gives the Indian Mandarins at the East Asian desk at the Ministry of External Affairs a headache.
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican from Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committtee, personally handed over to visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao a letter she had sent President Barack Obama prior to his summit with Hu, urging him to raise US concerns over Beijing's policies, including its 'deplorable human rights record."
The state visit of the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, beginning today is different from Obama's November trip to India, it added. "It (Hu's US visit)'s a little different than our trip to India, in the sense that the economic relationship that we have with the Chinese is different on a scale with what we do with India," said Robert Gibbs.
Chinese President Hu Jintao was re-elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China for a successive five-year term on Monday. Hu won the fresh mandate from the newly elected CPC's 17th Central Committee after its first plenum in Beijing on Monday morning.
Doing away with protocol, Hu was received at the airport by President Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Deputy High Commissioner of India T C A Raghavan.
The President went inside the cenotaph chamber where he heard the famed 15-second echo -- of a 'muezzin' calling out and the sound reverberating for 15 seconds.
"Pakistan seeks peaceful resolution of all issues with India, including the longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute. Success in this endeavour would usher in a new era of peace and prosperity in South Asia."
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday proposed five steps, including trade liberalisation and trade expansion and diversification between India and China, to solidify mutual relationship.
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