China's Vice President Zeng Qinghong (bottom) listens while China's president Hu Jintao speaking during the concluding session of the 17th Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 21, 2007. China's Communist Party began winding up a five-yearly Congress on October 21, 2007 by announcing Zeng was out of the new Party lineup, making way for President Hu Jintao to install potential successors. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA) 

Chinese President Jiang Zemin (C) waves at the beginning of a dinner sponsored by the Southern California Chinese Community in his honour at the Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles as he is joined by Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Quichen (L) and special assistant to the president Zeng Qing Hong (R), November 2. President Jiang toured the Hughes Electronics Corporation earlier in the day and is scheduled to depart for China in the morning November 3.

SUMMIT JIANG