First session of the 13th National People's Congress

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 and concluded on 20 March. Major state positions were elected in this session.

The Chinese Communist Party proposed amending the country's constitution, for the first time after 2004, including writing Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jinping Thought into the Preamble, and removing the provision that the President and Vice President "shall serve no more than two consecutive terms" from the Constitution. Amending the Constitution of China requires a majority vote of two-thirds of all the deputies to the Congress.Article 64 of the Constitution of China. On 11 March 2018, the Congress passed the amendment in the third plenary meeting of this session, attended by 2,964 out of 2,980 deputies, with 2,958 votes for, two against, three abstaining, and one void.

On 17 March 2018, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, was unanimously re-elected as the president of China and the chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Li Zhanshu was elected as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Li Keqiang was nominated as the Premier by President Xi Jinping and approved by the Congress on 18 March 2018. 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.

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 298000 Presidential Election Vice-Presidential Election Candidates For Against Abstain Candidates For Against Abstain Xi Jinping2980 0 0 Wang Qishan 2969 10 NPCSC Vice-Chairmen ElectionNSC Director Election Candidates For Against Abstain Candidates For Against AbstainWang Chen298000 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 RatePremier Li Keqiang's Government Work Report 2,956 3 3 99.80%State Council Institutional Reform Plan2,9662299.87%Report on the Implementation of the 2017 National Economic and Social Development Plan and the 2018 Draft 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

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