From left: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chinese President Hu Jintao, and Wu Bangguo, National People's Congress chairman, arrive for a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Wu said the country is determined never to adopt multiparty democracy or other Western-style political reforms that could challenge the Communist Party's grip on power.
PHOTO: Vincent Thian/AP
