China newly elected President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang

China has a new president. The National People’s Congress has elected Xi Jinping, General-secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as the president. The 60-year-old Xi Jinping, is expected to lead the country for the next decade.

The handover of power, in the world’s most populous nation.

Xi Jinping is elected as President by nearly 3,000 deputies of the National People’s Congress. Congratulations from his predecessor Hu Jintao.

The NPC has given Xi Jinping the platform to lay out policies to build the “prosperous nation”, “harmonious society”, and “beautiful China”, which he describes in public appearances.

Xi Jinping: Man of the people, statesman of vision CCTV News - CNTV English

• Xi Jinping shakes hands with Li Keqiang  

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Li Keqiang was endorsed as Chinese premier Friday morning at the ongoing session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature.

Nearly 3,000 NPC deputies voted to approve the nomination of Li, by newly-elected President Xi Jinping, as the candidate for premier at the ongoing parliament session.



He has been the seventh premier since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, replacing Wen Jiabao who had headed the State Council since 2003.

Li, born in 1955 in Anhui Province, joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1976 and graduated from Peking University with law and economics degrees.

After working as provincial leaders 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.

Li was re-elected to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in November.

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