Xi Jinping elected Chinese President
CHINA: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of
China (CPC) Central Committee, was elected president of the People's
Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the PRC Central Military
Commission (CMC) on Thursday.
The plenary meeting of the first session of the 12th National
People's Congress (NPC) also elected Zhang Dejiang chairman of the NPC
Standing Committee.
Li Yuanchao was elected vice-president of the PRC.
Elected to vice chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee were Li
Jianguo, Wang Shengjun, Chen Changzhi, Yan Junqi, Wang Chen, Shen Yueyue,
Ji Bingxuan, Zhang Ping, Qiangba Puncog, Arken Imirbaki, Wan Exiang,
Zhang Baowen and Chen Zhu.
The post of secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee went to
Wang Chen (concurrent).
Also elected were 161 members of the 12th NPC Standing Committee.
According to the rules of election and appointment adopted at the NPC
session, the elections of chairman, vice-chairpersons and
secretary-general of the 12th NPC Standing Committee, president and
vice-president of the PRC, and chairman of the CMC are non-competitive.
And the elections of the NPC Standing Committee members are
competitive. This time, 161 members were elected out of 174 candidates,
bringing the 7-percent margin in the previous election five years ago to
8 percent.
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