Hu gets to grips with the key issues

What is it like to lead 1.3 billion people and keep an extremely vast, complicated country on the track of sustained economic growth accompanied with ever-increasing international prestige?

Hu Jintao seems to be the one who can offer an admirable and convincing answer.

The 65-year-old was elected on Saturday to another term of five years as both Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, the country's top military command, by nearly 3,000 members of the national legislature.