Hu pledges to do his utmost to serve people

President Hu Jintao yesterday pledged clean governance and appropriate use of power to serve the people wholeheartedly.

"I will serve the people and exert myself to work for the country ... be a good public servant and sincerely seek benefits for the people," Hu said at the closing meeting of the first session of the 11th NPC in Beijing.

He expressed thanks to the NPC deputies and the entire nation for their trust, saying the new leadership will keep to clean governance and willingly accept supervision from the people.