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.
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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]
Election results edit
| NPCSC Chairman Election | NPCSC Secretary-general Election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Legislation and resolutions edit
| Topic | For | Against | Abstain | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
Elected Members edit
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 | 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]
References edit
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