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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.
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]
NPCSC Chairman Election | NPCSC Secretary-general Election | ||||||
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Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
Li Zhanshu | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Zhenwu | 2980 | 0 | 0 |
Presidential Election | Vice-Presidential Election | ||||||
Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
Xi Jinping | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Wang Qishan | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
NPCSC Vice-Chairmen Election | NSC Director Election | ||||||
Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
Wang Chen | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
Cao Jianming | 2980 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Zhang Chunxian | 2979 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Shen Yueyue | 2979 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Ji Bingxuan | 2980 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Arken Imirbaki | 2980 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Wan Exiang | 2980 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Chen Zhu | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Wang Dongming | 2979 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Padma Choling | 2980 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Ding Zhongli | 2978 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Hao Mingjin | 2980 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Cai Dafeng | 2979 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Wu Weihua | 2980 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Premierial Election | Vice-Premierial Election | ||||||
Li Keqiang | 2964 | 2 | 0 | Han Zheng | 2976 | 4 | 0 |
Sun Chunlan | 2956 | 5 | 8 | ||||
Hu Chunhua | 2979 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Liu He | 2964 | 3 | 2 | ||||
CMC Chairmanship Election | CMC Vice-Chairmanship Election | ||||||
Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
Xi Jinping | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Xu Qiliang | 2962 | 0 | 4 |
Zhang Youxia | 2963 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Supreme Court President Election | Procurator-general Election | ||||||
Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
Zhou Qiang | 2956 | 5 | 5 | Zhang Jun | 2951 | 5 | 10 |
Topic | For | Against | Abstain | Rate |
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Report on the Work of the Government by Premier Li Keqiang | 2956 | 3 | 3 | 99.80% |
Plan for the Institutional Reform on the State Council | 2966 | 2 | 2 | 99.87% |
Implementation of the 2017 National Economic and Social Development Plan and the 2018 National Economic and Social Development Plan | 2902 | 41 | 19 | 97.97% |
2017 Central and Local Budget Performance Report and the Draft of the 2018 Central and Local Budget | 2838 | 87 | 37 | 95.81% |
Amendment to the Constitution | 2958 | 2 | 3 | 99.83% |
Supervision Law | 2914 | 28 | 18 | 98.45% |
Work report of NPC Standing Committee by Zhang Dejiang | 2922 | 22 | 18 | 98.65% |
Work Report of the Supreme People's Court by Zhou Qiang | 2806 | 132 | 23 | 94.77% |
Work Report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate by Cao Jianming | 2781 | 138 | 43 | 93.89% |
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 |
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Anhui | 75 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 112 |
Beijing | 32 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 54 |
Chongqing | 43 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 60 |
Fujian | 44 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 69 |
Gansu | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 53 |
Guangdong | 112 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 161 |
Guangxi | 61 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 89 |
Guizhou | 53 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 72 |
Hainan | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
Hebei | 78 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 124 |
Heilongjiang | 67 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 91 |
Henan | 126 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 171 |
Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 36 |
Hubei | 91 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 118 |
Hunan | 76 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 117 |
Inner Mongolia | 47 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 57 |
Jiangsu | 107 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 149 |
Jiangxi | 61 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 80 |
Jilin | 51 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 63 |
Liaoning | 72 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 101 |
Macau | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
Ningxia | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 21 |
People's Liberation Army | 294 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 294 |
Qinghai | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20 |
Shaanxi | 49 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 67 |
Shandong | 123 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 174 |
Shanghai | 38 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 58 |
Shanxi | 51 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 69 |
Sichuan | 104 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 147 |
Taiwan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
Tianjin | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 41 |
Tibet | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
Xinjiang | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 60 |
Yunnan | 63 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 90 |
Zhejiang | 65 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 93 |
Total | 2,175 | 64 | 58 | 56 | 54 | 54 | 44 | 38 | 11 | 426 | 2,980 |
Source: [14]
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