# First session of the 13th National People's Congress

The first session of the 13th National People's Congress was held in March 2018 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The session opened on 5 March and concluded on 20 March. Major state positions were elected in this session.
The Chinese Communist Party proposed amending the country's constitution, for the first time after 2004, including writing Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jinping Thought 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, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, was unanimously re-elected as the President of the People's Republic of China and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Li Zhanshu was elected as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
Li Keqiang was nominated as the Premier by President Xi Jinping and approved by the Congress on 18 March 2018. Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua 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

| NPCSC Chairman Election | NPCSC Chairman Election | NPCSC Chairman Election | NPCSC Chairman Election | NPCSC Secretary-general Election | NPCSC Secretary-general Election | NPCSC Secretary-general Election | NPCSC Secretary-general Election |
| Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
| Li Zhanshu | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Zhenwu | 2980 | 0 | 0 |
| Presidential Election | Presidential Election | Presidential Election | Presidential Election | Vice-Presidential Election | Vice-Presidential Election | Vice-Presidential Election | Vice-Presidential Election |
| Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
| Xi Jinping | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Wang Qishan | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| NPCSC Vice-Chairmen Election | NPCSC Vice-Chairmen Election | NPCSC Vice-Chairmen Election | NPCSC Vice-Chairmen Election | NSC Director Election | NSC Director Election | NSC Director Election | NSC Director Election |
| Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
| Wang Chen | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| Cao Jianming | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| Zhang Chunxian | 2979 | 1 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| Shen Yueyue | 2979 | 1 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| Ji Bingxuan | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| Arken Imirbaki | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| Wan Exiang | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Yang Xiaodu | 2969 | 1 | 0 |
| Chen Zhu | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wang Dongming | 2979 | 1 | 0 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Padma Choling | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ding Zhongli | 2978 | 1 | 1 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Hao Mingjin | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Cai Dafeng | 2979 | 1 | 0 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wu Weihua | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Liu Yuan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Premierial Election | Premierial Election | Premierial Election | Premierial Election | Vice-Premierial Election | Vice-Premierial Election | Vice-Premierial Election | Vice-Premierial Election |
| Li Keqiang | 2964 | 2 | 0 | Han Zheng | 2976 | 4 | 0 |
| Li Keqiang | 2964 | 2 | 0 | Sun Chunlan | 2956 | 5 | 8 |
| Li Keqiang | 2964 | 2 | 0 | Hu Chunhua | 2979 | 0 | 1 |
| Li Keqiang | 2964 | 2 | 0 | Liu He | 2964 | 3 | 2 |
| CMC Chairmanship Election | CMC Chairmanship Election | CMC Chairmanship Election | CMC Chairmanship Election | CMC Vice-Chairmanship Election | CMC Vice-Chairmanship Election | CMC Vice-Chairmanship Election | CMC Vice-Chairmanship Election |
| Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
| Xi Jinping | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Xu Qiliang | 2962 | 0 | 4 |
| Xi Jinping | 2980 | 0 | 0 | Zhang Youxia | 2963 | 2 | 1 |
| Supreme Court President Election | Supreme Court President Election | Supreme Court President Election | Supreme Court President Election | Procurator-general Election | Procurator-general Election | Procurator-general Election | Procurator-general Election |
| Candidates | For | Against | Abstain | Candidates | For | Against | Abstain |
| Zhou Qiang | 2956 | 5 | 5 | Zhang Jun | 2951 | 5 | 10 |

### Resolutions

| Topic | For | Against | Abstain | Rate |
| Premier Li Keqiang's Government Work Report | 2,956 | 3 | 3 | 99.80% |
| State Council Institutional Reform Plan | 2,966 | 2 | 2 | 99.87% |
| Report on the Implementation of the 2017 National Economic and Social Development Plan and the 2018 Draft Plan | 2,902 | 41 | 19 | 97.97% |
| Report on the Execution of the Central and Local Budgets for 2017 and on the Draft Central and Local Budgets for 2018 | 2,838 | 87 | 37 | 95.81% |
| Amendment to the Constitution | 2,958 | 2 | 3 | 99.83% |
| Supervision Law | 2,914 | 28 | 18 | 98.45% |
| Chairman Zhang Dejiang's NPCSC Work Report | 2,922 | 22 | 18 | 98.65% |
| Chief Justice Zhou Qiang's Supreme People's Court Work Report | 2,806 | 132 | 23 | 94.77% |
| Procurator-General Cao Jianming's Supreme People's Procuratorate Work Report | 2,781 | 138 | 43 | 93.89% |

## Elected Members

Below is the number of deputies elected from each delegation.
| Constituency | Communist | Jiusan | DL | CNDCA | CAPD | Peasants and Workers | Left Kuomintang | Zhi Gong | Taiwan League | Independent | Total |
| Anhui | 75 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 112 |
| Beijing | 32 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 54 |
| Chongqing | 43 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 60 |
| Fujian | 44 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 69 |
| Gansu | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 53 |
| Guangdong | 112 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 161 |
| Guangxi | 61 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 89 |
| Guizhou | 53 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 72 |
| Hainan | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
| Hebei | 78 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 124 |
| Heilongjiang | 67 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 91 |
| Henan | 126 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 171 |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 36 |
| Hubei | 91 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 118 |
| Hunan | 76 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 117 |
| Inner Mongolia | 47 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 57 |
| Jiangsu | 107 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 149 |
| Jiangxi | 61 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 80 |
| Jilin | 51 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 63 |
| Liaoning | 72 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 101 |
| Macau | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| Ningxia | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 21 |
| People's Liberation Army | 294 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 294 |
| Qinghai | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20 |
| Shaanxi | 49 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 67 |
| Shandong | 123 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 174 |
| Shanghai | 38 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 58 |
| Shanxi | 51 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 69 |
| Sichuan | 104 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 147 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| Tianjin | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 41 |
| Tibet | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
| Xinjiang | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 60 |
| Yunnan | 63 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 90 |
| Zhejiang | 65 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 93 |
| Total | 2,175 | 64 | 58 | 56 | 54 | 54 | 44 | 38 | 11 | 426 | 2,980 |
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