Li Zhanshu elected chairman of NPC Standing Committee

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Li Zhanshu was elected chairman of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on Saturday.

He was elected at the plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th NPC in Beijing.

Li is a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

He was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Oct. 25, 2017.

Li is also currently the Director of the Office of the National Security Commission of the CPC Central Committee.

Born in August 1950 and is from Pingshan, Hebei Province, he began his first job in December 1972 and joined the Communist Party of China in April 1975.

Li graduated from Department of Political Education, Night College, Hebei Normal University where he completed an in-service undergraduate program. He holds an executive MBA degree.

Li Zhanshu

Li was a member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat and the director of the CPC Central Committee General Office, the director of the office of the National Security Commission of the CPC Central Committee and the secretary of the Working Committee of the Organs Directly Under the CPC Central Committee from 2014 to 2017.

From 2012 to 2014, Li was a member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, the Director of the CPC Central Committee General Office, and the secretary of the Working Committee of the Organs Directly Under the CPC Central Committee.

He was also the 2012 Deputy Director (minister level) in charge of routine work and the director of the CPC Central Committee General Office, the secretary of the Working Committee of the Organs Directly Under the CPC Central Committee and the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial People's Congress from 2012 to 2014.

He was the secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial People's Congress from 2010 to 2012.

A total of 14 people were elected vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the 13th NPC on Saturday.

They are Wang Chen, Cao Jianming, Zhang Chunxian, Shen Yueyue, Ji Bingxuan, Arken Imirbaki, Wan Exiang, Chen Zhu, Wang Dongming, Padma Choling, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng and Wu Weihua.

Yang Zhenwu was elected secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee.

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Source(s): Xinhua News Agency