The first session of the 13th National People's Congress was held in March 2018 at the

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, China. The session opened on 5 March and concluded on 20 March. Major state positions were elected in this session. The

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proposed amending the country's

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, for the first time after 2004, including writing

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and

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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. 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,

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, was unanimously re-elected as the

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and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and

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was elected as the

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Li Keqiang Li Keqiang ( zh, s=李克强, p=Lǐ Kèqiáng; 3 July 1955 – 27 October 2023) was a Chinese economist and politician who served as the seventh premier of China from 2013 to 2023. He was also the second-ranked member of the Politburo Standing ...

was nominated as the

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by President Xi Jinping and approved by the Congress on 18 March 2018.

Han Zheng Han Zheng (; born April 1954) is a Chinese politician who since 2023 has served as the 11th Vice President of China, vice president of China. He previously served as the Vice Premier of China, first-ranking vice premier of China between 2018 and ...

Sun Chunlan Sun Chunlan ( zh , s = 孙春兰 ; born 24 May 1950) is a retired Chinese politician. She served as the second-ranked Vice Premier of China and the highest-ranking incumbent female government official until March 2023. Previously, she served a ...

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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

Resolutions

Elected Members

References

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