BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Hu Jintao was reelected president of the
People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the PRC Central Military
Commission (CMC) at the fifth plenary meeting of the First Session of the 11th
National People's Congress (NPC)here Saturday.
The plenary meeting also reelected Wu Bangguo chairman of the NPC Standing
Committee and elected Xi Jinping vice-president of the PRC.
Elected to the posts of vice-chairmanship of the NPC Standing Committee
were Wang Zhaoguo, Lu Yongxiang, Uyunqimg, Han Qide, Hua Jianmin, Chen Zhili,
Zhou Tienong, Li Jianguo, Ismail Tiliwaldi,Jiang Shusheng, Chen Changzhi, Yan
Junqi and Sang Guowei.
The post of secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee went to Li
Jianguo (concurrent).
Also elected were 161 members of the 11th NPC Standing Committee.
Executive Chairman Wang Zhaoguo of the presidium of the on-going NPC
session presided over the meeting.
The election began with a vote for a list of 35 scrutineers with Wang
Yanwen and Gao Wanneng as scrutineers-general.
According to the rules of election and appointment adopted at the NPC
session, the election of chairman, vice-chairpersons and secretary-general of
the 11th NPC Standing Committee, president and vice-president of the PRC, and
chairman of the CMC followed the single-candidate system, that is, they were
elected from the equal number of candidates; the election of NPC Standing
Committee members followed the differential voting system, with a seven percent
margin to be eliminated.
A total of 2,967 NPC deputies attended the meeting.