Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 17th. The first session of the 13th National People's Congress elected Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China on the morning of the 17th.
When the election result was announced, the audience burst into warm applause for a long time. The
meeting also elected Li Zhanshu as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress and Wang Qishan as Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China.
At 9:00 a.m., the Fifth Plenary Session of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress was held in the Great Hall of the People.
Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and others attended the meeting.
The meeting should be attended by 2980 delegates, 2970 attendees, and 10 absentees, and the number of attendees meets the quorum.
meeting was chaired by Chen Xi, Executive Chairman of the Conference and Executive Chairman of the Presidium. The Executive Chairman of the Conference Wang Dongming, Xu Qiliang, Zhang Xuan, Lou Qinjian, Luo Huining and Jiang Chaoliang took their seats in the rostrum.
The meeting first voted to pass the decision of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress on the State Council's institutional reform plan and approved this plan. The conference required that the State Council should adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, carefully organize and make careful arrangements to ensure the completion of the State Council’s institutional reform tasks.
meeting voted to pass the method for election and decision-making on the first session of the 13th National People's Congress.
9:23, the election officially began. The ballot monitor first inspected the 28 electronic ballot boxes and electronic election systems set up in the venue. Then, the staff began to distribute votes. Four election ballots of different colors were distributed to each representative. The election votes are printed in Chinese and seven ethnic minority texts.
Then, the representatives began to write votes. There is a secret ticket office in the back area of the venue.
According to the method of election and decision-making appointment, the President of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, and Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China conducted equal elections.
9:41, the chief voter and voter vote first. Afterwards, the delegates began to vote. After the vote, the chief voter reported on the issuance and retrieval of the votes, and the election was valid.
staff read out the vote count results. The results of
vote counting show that in the election of President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping received an average of 2,970 votes in favor, and the audience gave warm applause.
The host announced:
Comrade Xi Jinping was elected President of the People's Republic of China.
Xi Jinping stood up and bowed to the representatives. All representatives stood up and expressed their respect to Xi Jinping with warm applause. Li Keqiang and Zhang Dejiang, who were standing beside him, shook hands with Xi Jinping respectively and congratulated him.
When the host announced that Comrade Xi Jinping was elected as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, warm applause sounded again in the venue, and Xi Jinping stood up and bowed to the representatives again.
Then, the host announced in turn:
Comrade Li Zhanshu was elected as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress.
Comrade Wang Qishan was elected as Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China.
Comrades Wang Chen, Cao Jianming, Zhang Chunxian, Shen Yueyue, Ji Bingxuan, Ailigen Yiming Bahai, Wan Exiang, Chen Zhu, Wang Dongming, Bai Ma Chilin, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng and Wu Weihua were elected as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress.
Comrade Yang Zhenwu was elected as Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress.
When every election result was announced, warm applause came from the scene.
Amid applause, the newly elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Zhanshu stood up and bowed to the delegates. Afterwards, he walked towards Xi Jinping, and the two shook hands cordially, and Xi Jinping congratulated him. Li Zhanshu shook hands with Zhang Dejiang, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, and greeted each other. Zhang Dejiang also shook hands with Xi Jinping, expressing his gratitude and tribute.
Amid applause, the newly elected Vice President of the State Wang Qishan bowed to the representatives. Xi Jinping shook hands with him cordially and congratulated him.
According to the organizational measures of the Presidium of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress on the Constitutional Oath, after the completion of the agenda of the plenary session, the constitutional oath ceremony of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China will be held.
10:49, the trumpeter of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Band played the oath ceremony on the spot.
12 guards of honor from the army, navy and air force were divided into two rows, walking from the rear of the venue to the rostrum.
All stand up. On the rostrum, three guards escorted the Constitution of the People's Republic of China in stairs and placed the Constitution on the oath platform.
Accompanied by the military band, the audience sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
Then, the staff announced: Now please ask Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, to take the oath.
Along with the horn of the president's appearance, the newly elected President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping stood up from the roster stage and walked steadily to the oath stage and stood.
The back curtain of the rostrum is in the middle, the national emblem is hanging high, shining brightly. Nearly 3,000 National People's Congress representatives on the scene witnessed this sacred moment together.
Xi Jinping stroked his left hand and pressed the Constitution, raised his fist with his right hand, and solemnly swore.
"I swear: be loyal to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, safeguard the authority of the Constitution, perform statutory duties, be loyal to the motherland and the people, perform your duties conscientiously, be honest and dedicated, accept the supervision of the people, and work hard to build a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern country!"
The sonorous and powerful oath resounded throughout the Great Hall of the People.
After the oath was over, Xi Jinping bowed to the audience. There was a long and warm applause from the scene.
Subsequently, the newly elected Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Zhanshu and the newly elected Vice Chairman of the State Wang Qishan respectively took the constitutional oath, and the newly elected Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress took the collective oath.
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President of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping
On March 17, the fifth plenary session of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping was elected President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China. This is Xi Jinping's oath to the Constitution. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng photographed
