BEIJING - Xi Jinping on Friday (March 10) secured a precedent-breaking third five-year term as China's president as he tightens his grip as the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Nearly 3,000 members of China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), voted unanimously in the Great Hall of the People for Xi, 69, to be president in an...
Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on after casting his vote during the Third Plenary Session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China, on 10 March 2023.BEIJING - Xi Jinping on Friday secured a precedent-breaking third five-year term as China's president as he tightens his grip as the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
Over the next two days, officials approved by Xi are set to be appointed or elected to fill top positions in the cabinet, including, who is expected to be named to China's No.2 post, putting him in charge of managing the world's second largest economy. The election of state leaders by the parliament comes three months after tough Covid-19 policies were dismantled and a new wave of infections caused by the highly transmissible Omicron strain rippled across the country. Except for dozens of top leaders, all other delegates and staff wore masks.
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