President Hu Jintao (front), also general secretary of the CPC Central Committe, and other delegates vote by a show of hands at the first meeting of the presidium of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 14, 2007. The congress, to be held from October 15 to 21, will decide China's new leadership and the path China will follow in the next five years or more. [Xinhua]