12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was the meeting of the top political advisory body of the People's Republic of China. It convened in Beijing on 3 March 2013 and ended on 3 March 2018.

Seat distribution The 2,237 members in the 12th National Committee of CPPCC was composed of:

Seats for political parties (544 in total) Major partySeatsChinese Communist Party99Other PartiesSeatsRevolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang65China Democratic League65China National Democratic Construction Association65China Association for Promoting Democracy45Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party45China Zhi Gong Party30Jiusan Society45Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League20Independents65

Seats for people's organizations (320 in total) +People's organizationSeatsCommunist Youth League of China9All-China Federation of Trade Unions63All-China Women's Federation67All-China Youth Federation30All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce65China Association for Science and Technology43All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots15All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese28

Seats for Sectoral representatives (1054 in total) +SectorSeatsLiterature and Arts145Science and Technology112Social Science69Economics151Agriculture67Education108Sports21Press and Publication44Medicine and Health90Friendship with Foreign Countries41Social Welfare and Social Security36Ethnic Minorities103Religions67

Specially invited deputies (319 in total) Hong Kong (124 in total)SeatsDemocratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong?Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong?Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions?Liberal Party?New Century Forum?New Territories Association of Societies?Independents?Macau (29 in total)SeatsMacau United Citizens Association?Macau Business Interest Union?Macau Union of Professional Interests?Progress Promotion Union/General Union of the Macao Residents' Associations?Union for Development/The Women's General Association of Macau?Independents?OtherSeatsOther (including People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police service personnel)166

Organization

Council of Chairpersons PartyTermChairmanYu ZhengshengCCPVice ChairpersonsDu QinglinCCPLing JihuaCCPHan QideJSPagbalha Geleg NamgyaiInd.Tung Chee-hwaInd.Wan GangCZGPLin WenyiTDSLLuo FuheCAPDEdmund HoInd.Zhang QingliCCPLi HaifengCCPSu RongCCPChen YuanCCPLu ZhangongCCPZhou XiaochuanCCPWang JiaruiCCPWang ZhengweiCCPMa BiaoCCPQi XuchunRCCKChen XiaoguangCDLMa PeihuaCNDCALiu XiaofengCPWDPWang QinminCZGPLeung Chun-yingInd.Secretary-GeneralXia BaolongCCPSource:

Special Committees Special committeeChairpersonCommittee for Handling ProposalsSun GanCommittee for Economic AffairsZhou BohuaCommittee of Population, Resources and EnvironmentJia ZhibangCommittee of Education, Science, Culture, Health and SportsZhang YutaiCommittee for Social and Legal AffairsMeng XuenongCommittee for Ethnic and Religious AffairsZhu WeiqunCommittee for Liaison with Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas ChineseYang ChonghuiSun HuaishanYang YanyinCommittee of Foreign AffairsPan YunheCommittee on History and StudyWang Taihua

The first session The 1st Session of the 12th CPPCC was held from March 3–12, 2013. It was announced on 2 March that the session period would be shortened to nine days, down from the ten days in the previous year. A preparatory meeting for the session was held on 2 March, presided by Jia Qinglin, the outgoing CPPCC chairman. The preparatory meeting approved the presidium of the session, the session's agenda and name list of the session's proposals examination committee. The presidium held a meeting later in the day, with Yu Zhengsheng presiding over the meeting assisted by several executive chairpersons.

The first plenary meeting of the 1st Session was held on 3 March, where Jia Qinglin delivered the work report of the Standing Committee of the 11th CPPCC National Committee. On 7 March, the second plenary meeting was held, where various members of the CPPCC gave speeches. On 8 March, the third plenary meeting was held.

The fourth plenary meeting was held on 11 March, during the meeting, Yu Zhengsheng was elected as the new chairman of the CPPCC, succeeding Jia Qinglin. Additionally, the vice chairpersons, the secretary-general and the members of the Standing Committee were elected. On 12 March, the 1st Session held its final meeting, where the work report were adopted. The session was presided by Wang Yang, who gave the closing address to the meeting.

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