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BEIJING: Xi Jinping was unanimously elected president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the PRC on Friday at the ongoing session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC).
The election result reflects the common will and unity of the whole country and also reinforces China’s key advantages of political certainty and consistency that ensures the country is able to overcome challenges and realize Chinese modernization as the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, Chinese analysts said.
On Friday morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, deputies to the 14th NPC, China’s national legislature finished the process of electing the president and vice president of the PRC, chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC, as well as chairperson, vice chairpersons and secretary-general of the 14th NPC Standing Committee.
After a result of unanimous vote election being announced, Xi, newly elected president of the PRC and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC, made a public pledge of allegiance to the Constitution at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday. Zhao Leji was elected chairman of the 14th NPC Standing Committee. Han Zheng was elected Chinese vice president. A total of 14 people were elected vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the 14th NPC. They are Li Hongzhong, Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Zheng Jianbang, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, He Wei, Wu Weihua, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Losang Jamcan, and Shohrat Zakir. Liu Qi was elected secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee.
They all made a public pledge of allegiance to the Constitution at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday morning.
The People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), published an editorial on Friday, saying that Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, has been elected to be the president of the PRC and the chairman of the CMC of the PRC, and this reflects the common will shared by the whole Party, the entire military, and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.
This shows the “trinity” leadership system of the CPC, the PRC and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and shows the political advantage of the CPC’s leadership and the institutional advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it’s good for reinforcing and enhancing the Party’s overall leadership, and good for improving the leadership system of the Party and state, the editorial noted.
It’s also “good for safeguarding the authority and the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi at its core, laying solid political and organizational foundation for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” the People’s Daily editorial read.
Experts said the elections fully reflected the operation of whole-process people’s democracy, as the results showed that the Party, the people and all groups of society share the same will in electing top leaders of the state.
