Chinese leaders attend Lantern Festival celebrations

President Hu Jintao and other top Chinese leaders joined an evening party in Beijing, to celebrate the annual Lantern Festival with Chinese intellectuals.

Sunday's event featured song and dance shows, and rice dumplings, a traditional festival food. President Hu and eight other members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, including top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao, attended the party.

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China  (CPC) Hu Jintao (C) talks with delegates from the intelligentsia during a  get-together marking the traditional Lantern Festival at the Great Hall  of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 28, 2010. The CPC Central  Committee hosted a get-together here on Sunday to mark the  Lantern Festival. (Xinhua/Fan Rujun)

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