13th NPC endorses Premier Li Keqiang for a second term
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LI Keqiang was endorsed as premier yesterday at the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress, the country’s national legislature.
Nearly 3,000 NPC deputies voted to approve the premiership nomination of Li, by newly elected President Xi Jinping.
Li was officially appointed premier after Xi signed a presidential decree.
Li then took an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. “I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China to safeguard the Constitution’s authority, fulfill my legal obligations, be loyal to the country and the people, be committed and honest in my duty, accept the people’s supervision and work for a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful.”
This is the second term for him as premier. In 2013, he became the seventh premier since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949.
Li, born in 1955, joined the Communist Party of China in 1976 and graduated from Peking University with law and economics degrees. After working as a provincial leader in Henan and Liaoning provinces, he was elected to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in 2007 and appointed vice premier in 2008.
He was re-elected to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in 2012 and 2017.
In a government work report delivered on March 5, Li called on the people to rally even closer around the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core, be enterprising and work hard.
At yesterday’s plenary meeting, the deputies also voted for vice chairmen and members of China’s Central Military Commission, and elected the director of the national supervisory commission, president of the Supreme People’s Court, procurator-general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and members of the 13th NPC Standing Committee.
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