Hu Jintao elected China's president

Vice President Hu Jintao was on Saturday elected unopposed as the President of the People's Republic of China for a five-year term.

Hu, 60, succeeds Jiang Zemin, 76, who held two consecutive five-year terms

as Chinese president.

Hu, who is also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China, was appointed president by the newly-elected members of the nearly 3,000-member National People's Congress, China's parliament.