National People's CongressAbbreviationSimplified Chinese全国人大Traditional Chinese全國人大Other abbreviationSimplified Chinese中国人大Traditional Chinese中國人大Tibetan nameTibetanརྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་མི་ཚོགས་ཆེན་Zhuang nameZhuangDaengx Guek Yinzminz Daibyauj DaihhoihKorean nameHangul전국인민대표대회Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicБүх улсын ардын төлөөлөгчдийн их хуралMongolian scriptᠪᠦᠬᠦ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨᠲᠦᠯᠤᠭᠡᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢᠳ ᠤᠨᠶᠡᠭᠡ ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠯUyghur nameUyghurمەملىكەتلىك خەلق قۇرۇلتىيىKazakh nameKazakhمەملەكەتتىك حالىق قۇرىلتايىYi nameYiꇩꏤꑭꊂꏓꂱꁧꎁꃀꀉꒉThe National People's Congress (NPC) is the supreme organ of state power of the People's Republic of China that heads the country's system of people's congress.
Vice Premier of ChinaAlternative Chinese nameSimplified Chinese国务院副总理Traditional Chinese國務院副總理The vice premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China is the deputy leader within the State Council that assist the premier of the State Council in their duties.President of ChinaAlternative nameSimplified Chinese（）Traditional Chinese（）The president ofthe People's Republic of China is the state representative of the People's Republic of China. On its own, it is a ceremonial office and has no real power in China's political system, though since 1993, the post has been concurrently held by the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission, who is the country's paramount leader.Zhang JingfuZhang Jingfu or Zhang Jinfu (Chinese: 张劲夫; 6 June 1903 – 31 July 2015) was a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor and Communist Party Secretary of Anhui province, Minister of Finance, and State Councilor of the 5th and 6th State Councils.
Premier of ChinaThe premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China is the head of government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and leader of the State Council, the executive organ of the National People's Congress (NPC) and highest administrative organ of state power. The post of prime minister was established in 1911 near the end of the Qing dynasty.State Council of ChinaState Council(commonly used abbreviation)Simplified Chinese国务院Traditional Chinese國務院Literal meaning"The Court of State Affairs"Central People's Government(Constitutional synonym)Chinese中央人民政府Literal meaningCentral People GovernmentThe State Council of China, synonymous with Central People's Government, is the supreme administrative organ of the country's unified state apparatus and the executive organ of the National People's Congress (NPC), the supreme organ of state power.
Secretary-General of the State CouncilThe Secretary-General of the State Council is an executive position within the State Council of the People's Republic of China. The secretary-general also leads the General Office of the State Council. The office ranks below the premier and above the ministers of various ministries and departments. The equivalent position in other political systems is the cabinet secretary.
Zhang AipingZhang Aiping (Chinese: 张爱萍; Wade–Giles: Chang Ai-p'ing; January 9, 1910 – July 5, 2003) was a Chinese military leader. BiographyZhang joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1928 after taking part in a communist-led rural uprising. He participated in the Long March and served as a field commander in the Chinese Red Army, first fighting against Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces, and later the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Wang BingqianWang Bingqian (Chinese: 王丙乾; pinyin: Wáng Bǐngqián; 26 June 1925 – 8 December 2025) was a Chinese politician who served as a Minister of Finance. Life and careerBorn in Li County, Hebei, Wang joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1940. Wang was a member of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang died in Guangdong on 8 December 2025, at the age of 100.Chen JunshengChen Junsheng (Chinese: 陈俊生; June 1927 – 8 August 2002) was a Chinese politician. As a provincial official in Heilongjiang in the early 1980s, he distinguished himself as an advocate of the household responsibility system, resulting in the implementation of the reform in China's last bastion of collective agriculture.
PinyinScheme for the Chinese Phonetic AlphabetSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseLiteral meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .
Chinese languageChinese (spoken: simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, written: 中文; Zhōngwén) is a collection of language varieties containing almost all Sinitic languages except Macro-Bai languages, natively spoken by the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in Greater China, as well as by communities of the overseas Chinese.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.