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12th National People's Congress 第十二届全国人民代表大会 | |
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5 March 2013 – 5 March 2018 (5 years, 0 days) Overview | |
Type | Highest organ of state power |
Election | Indirect elections |
Leadership | |
Chairman | Zhang Dejiang |
Vice Chairmen | Li Jianguo, Wang Shengjun, Chen Changzhi, Yan Junqi, Wang Chen, Shen Yueyue, Ji Bingxuan, Zhang Ping, Qiangba Puncog, Arken Imirbaki, Wan Exiang, Zhang Baowen, and Chen Zhu |
Secretary-General | Wang Chen |
Standing Committee | 166 (12th) |
Members | |
Total | 2,987 members |
12th National People's Congress | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 第十二届全国人民代表大会 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 第十二屆全國人民代表大會 | ||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 第十二届全国人大 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 第十二屆全國人大 | ||||||
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The 12th National People's Congress (NPC) was elected in national congressional conferences from October 2012 to February 2013 and was in session from 2013 to 2018. It succeeded the 11th National People's Congress. It held five plenary sessions in this period, occurring around early March every year. It was succeeded by the communing of the 13th National People's Congress.[1]