Rough Cut (no reporter narration)<br/> <br />STORY: Chinese president Hu Jintao attended a banquet in his honor on Saturday, the second day of his three-day visit to Hong Kong, before joining in the singing on stage at the end of a gala performance.<br/> <br />Hu was in Hong Kong to oversee the swearing-in of a new chief executive on Sunday, when current leader Donald Tsang will be replaced by his Beijing-backed successor, Leung Chun-ying.<br/> <br />After the dinner, the Chinese leader watched a gala which featured a kung-fu show and an acrobatic performance.<br/> <br />At the end of the show, Hu went up on to the stage and shook hands with the performers.<br/> <br />Then the Chinese president joined the gala performers to sing "Ode to the Motherland," a well-known patriotic song which pays tribute to Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China.
