Hu on Time list of 'influentials'

President Hu Jintao and Liu Qi, head of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee, are on the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, released on Friday by the US weekly magazine Time.

Hu and Liu are among the most influential leaders on the list, which will appear in next Friday's edition.

Five other people of Chinese descent make the Top 100. They are Steve Chen, one of the two creators of video sharing website YouTube; Ho Ching, CEO of Temasek Holdings; Pony Ma, chairman of Tencent Company; New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming; and blogger Zeng Jinyan.