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Special> 11th NPC & CPPCC 2008> Latest Update
UPDATED: March 15, 2008  
New Leaders Elected at NPC Plenary Meeting
Hu Jintao was reelected president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission (CMC) at the fifth plenary meeting of the First Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC)
 
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Hu Jintao was reelected president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission (CMC) at the fifth plenary meeting of the First Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) here Saturday.

The plenary meeting also reelected Wu Bangguo chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and elected Xi Jinping vice-president of the PRC.

Elected to the posts of vice-chairmanship of the NPC Standing Committee were Wang Zhaoguo, Lu Yongxiang, Uyunqimg, Han Qide, Hua Jianmin, Chen Zhili, Zhou Tienong, Li Jianguo, Ismail Tiliwaldi,Jiang Shusheng, Chen Changzhi, Yan Junqi and Sang Guowei.

The post of secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee went to Li Jianguo (concurrent).

Also elected were 161 members of the 11th NPC Standing Committee.

Executive Chairman Wang Zhaoguo of the presidium of the on-going NPC session presided over the meeting.

The election began with a vote for a list of 35 scrutineers with Wang Yanwen and Gao Wanneng as scrutineers-general.

According to the rules of election and appointment adopted at the NPC session, the election of chairman, vice-chairpersons and secretary-general of the 11th NPC Standing Committee, president and vice-president of the PRC, and chairman of the CMC followed the single-candidate system, that is, they were elected from the equal number of candidates; the election of NPC Standing Committee members followed the differential voting system, with a seven percent margin to be eliminated.

A total of 2,967 NPC deputies attended the meeting.

(Xinhua News Agency March 15, 2008)



 
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