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 country's 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 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 |
Resolutions
| Topic | For | Against | Abstain | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premier Li Keqiang's Government Work Report | 2,956 | 3 | 3 | 99.80% |
| State Council Institutional Reform Plan | 2,966 | 2 | 2 | 99.87% |
| Report on the Implementation of the 2017 National Economic and Social Development Plan and the 2018 Draft Plan | 2,902 | 41 | 19 | 97.97% |
| Report on the Execution of the Central and Local Budgets for 2017 and on the Draft Central and Local Budgets for 2018 | 2,838 | 87 | 37 | 95.81% |
| Amendment to the Constitution | 2,958 | 2 | 3 | 99.83% |
| Supervision Law | 2,914 | 28 | 18 | 98.45% |
| Chairman Zhang Dejiang's NPCSC Work Report | 2,922 | 22 | 18 | 98.65% |
| Chief Justice Zhou Qiang's Supreme People's Court Work Report | 2,806 | 132 | 23 | 94.77% |
| Procurator-General Cao Jianming's Supreme People's Procuratorate Work Report | 2,781 | 138 | 43 | 93.89% |
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 | 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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