国内英语新闻:Chinese leaders celebrate New Year with political advisors

BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao, along with other Chinese leaders, celebrated the New Year with political advisors Sunday morning in Beijing and delivered an important speech.

Hu and the other members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang attended a tea party held by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

The party was presided over by Jia Qinglin, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee.

The leaders were joined by senior members of the central committees of non-Communist parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, personages without party affiliation, officials of the central government and representatives from all walks of life and all ethnic groups in Beijing.