Gong Li left out of Chinese film group

Actress Gong Li was excluded from the delegate list of the 8th national conference of the China Film Association (CFA), a CFA spokesman said yesterday.

"According to the CFA charter, members must be Chinese citizens," CFA vice-chairman Kang Jianmin said.

Gong, the 43-year-old star of Farewell My Concubine and Memoirs of a Geisha, was naturalized in Singapore in early November.