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China's Communist Party has unveiled the leadership line-up that will steer the country for the next five years. President Hu Jintao won a second term as party and army chief, while four new faces joined the party's top body, the Politburo Standing Committee.

They included two men seen as potential successors to Mr Hu in 2012 - Shanghai party chief Xi Jinping and the head of Liaoning province, Li Keqiang.

The changes were announced at the end of the party's five-yearly congress.

The powerful nine-member Standing Committee was elected by the party's 204-member Central Committee.
Premier Wen Jiabao was reappointed to the committee, indicating another five-year term in office for him. Both he and Mr Hu are expected to have new terms approved when parliament meets in March.

He Guoqiang, the party's organisation chief, and Zhou Yongkang, the minister for public security, were the other two new additions to the committee. he four new members replace three of the country's most senior leaders - Vice-President Zeng Qinghong and lawmakers Luo Gan and Wu Guanzheng. A fourth committee member, Huang Ju, died in the summer.