2018 National People's Congress

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  • 2018 National People's Congress
  • 第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议
  • Dì-shísān Jiè Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì Dì-yīcì Huìyì
  • 1st Plenary Session of the
  • 13th National People's Congress

  • 5 March – 20 March
President Premier Congress Chairman
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Xi Jinping Li Keqiang Zhang Dejiang
since
14 March 2013		 since
15 March 2013		 since
14 March 2013
President-elect Premier-elect Congress Chairman-elect
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Xi Jinping Li Keqiang Li Zhanshu
since
17 March 2018		 since
18 March 2018		 since
17 March 2018
Website
2018 NPC official website
Members by Delegation to the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China as elected in 2018 China National People's Congress 2018.svg
Members by Delegation to the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China as elected in 2018

The 2018 National People's Congress, or the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress , was held in March 2018 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The session opened on 5 March [1] and concluded on 20 March. [2] Major state positions were elected in this session.

Contents

The Chinese Communist Party proposed amending the Constitution, for the first time after 2004, [3] including writing Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jinping Thought into the Preamble, [4] and removing the provision that the President and Vice President "shall serve no more than two consecutive terms" from the Constitution. [5] Amending the Constitution of China requires a majority vote of two-thirds of all the deputies to the Congress. [6] On 11 March 2018, the Congress passed the amendment in the third plenary meeting of this session, [7] attended by 2,964 out of 2,980 deputies, with 2,958 votes for, two against, three abstaining, and one void. [8] [9]

On 17 March 2018, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, was unanimously re-elected as the President of the People's Republic of China and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, [10] and Li Zhanshu was elected as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. [11]

Li Keqiang was nominated as the Premier by President Xi Jinping and approved by the Congress on 18 March 2018. [12] Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua and Liu He are nominated as the Vice Premiers by Premier Li Keqiang and approved by the Congress on 19 March 2018. [13]

Voting results

State positions

NPCSC Chairman ElectionNPCSC Secretary-general Election
CandidatesForAgainstAbstainCandidatesForAgainstAbstain
Li Zhanshu 298000Yang Zhenwu298000
Presidential ElectionVice-Presidential Election
CandidatesForAgainstAbstainCandidatesForAgainstAbstain
Xi Jinping 298000 Wang Qishan 296910
NPCSC Vice-Chairmen ElectionNSC Director Election
CandidatesForAgainstAbstainCandidatesForAgainstAbstain
Wang Chen 298000 Yang Xiaodu 296910
Cao Jianming 298000
Zhang Chunxian 297910
Shen Yueyue 297910
Ji Bingxuan 298000
Arken Imirbaki 298000
Wan Exiang 298000
Chen Zhu 298000 Liu Yuan 200
Wang Dongming 297910
Padma Choling 298000
Ding Zhongli 297811
Hao Mingjin 298000
Cai Dafeng 297910
Wu Weihua 298000
Premierial ElectionVice-Premierial Election
Li Keqiang 296420 Han Zheng 297640
Sun Chunlan 295658
Hu Chunhua 297901
Liu He 296432
CMC Chairmanship ElectionCMC Vice-Chairmanship Election
CandidatesForAgainstAbstainCandidatesForAgainstAbstain
Xi Jinping 298000 Xu Qiliang 296204
Zhang Youxia 296321
Supreme Court President ElectionProcurator-general Election
CandidatesForAgainstAbstainCandidatesForAgainstAbstain
Zhou Qiang 295655 Zhang Jun 2951510

Resolutions

TopicForAgainstAbstainRate
Premier Li Keqiang's Government Work Report2,9563399.80%
State Council Institutional Reform Plan2,9662299.87%
Report on the Implementation of the 2017 National Economic and Social Development Plan and the 2018 Draft Plan2,902411997.97%
Report on the Execution of the Central and Local Budgets for 2017 and on the Draft Central and Local Budgets for 20182,838873795.81%
Amendment to the Constitution2,9582399.83%
Supervision Law2,914281898.45%
Chairman Zhang Dejiang's NPCSC Work Report2,922221898.65%
Chief Justice Zhou Qiang's Supreme People's Court Work Report2,8061322394.77%
Procurator-General Cao Jianming's Supreme People's Procuratorate Work Report2,7811384393.89%

Elected Members

Below is the number of deputies elected from each delegation.

Constituency Communist Jiusan DL CNDCA CAPD Peasants and Workers Left Kuomintang Zhi Gong Taiwan League Independent Total
Anhui 753332423017112
Beijing 32212311201054
Chongqing 4311411110760
Fujian 44121322131069
Gansu 40010001001153
Guangdong 1124121212135161
Guangxi 61222122201589
Guizhou 5311231110972
Hainan 2200100010125
Hebei 784532420026124
Heilongjiang 67133111001491
Henan 1263452233023171
Hong Kong 0000000003636
Hubei 91323531118118
Hunan 763112222028117
Inner Mongolia 4711111100457
Jiangsu 1071544113122149
Jiangxi 6123222200680
Jilin 5111121300363
Liaoning 726302402012101
Macau 0000000001212
Ningxia 1600001000421
People's Liberation Army 294000000000294
Qinghai 1500000000520
Shaanxi 4922222210567
Shandong 1237454254020174
Shanghai 3834112111658
Shanxi 5121112200969
Sichuan 1045534624014147
Taiwan 500000104313
Tianjin 2711111220541
Tibet 1800000000119
Xinjiang 49000001001060
Yunnan 63101110102290
Zhejiang 65412331101393
Total2,17564585654544438114262,980

Source: [14]

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