9th National People's Congress

Chinese Congressional election, 1997-98

Oct. 1997 - Mar. 1998

All 2,979 seats to the National People's Congress

	Majority party	Minority party
		RCKMT
Leader	Jiang Zemin	He Luli
Party	Communist	Minge (RCKMT)
Alliance	United Front	United Front
Leader's seat	Shanghai At-large	Beijing At-large
Last election	68.4%	19.1%
Seats before	2,037	572
Seats won	2,130	460
Seat change	93	112
Percentage	71.5%	15.4%

Chairman before election

Qiao Shi
Communist

Chairman-elect

Li Peng
Communist

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The 9th National People's Congress (simplified Chinese: 第九届全国人民代表大会; traditional Chinese: 第九屆全國人民代表大會; pinyin: Dìjiǔ Jiè Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì) was in session from 1998 to 2003. It held five plenary sessions in this period. There were 2,979 deputies to this Congress.

Election Results

Elected state leaders

President of the People's Republic of China: Jiang Zemin
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Li Peng
Premier of the State Council: Zhu Rongji
Chairman of the Central Military Commission: Jiang Zemin
President of the Supreme People's Court: Xiao Yang
Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Han Zhubin

Congress results

Summary of the October 1997-March 1998
National People's Congress
of the People's Republic of China election results
Parties	Seats
Communist Party of China (中国共产党) Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang (民革 China Democratic League (民盟) China Democratic National Construction Association (民建) China Association for Promoting Democracy (民进) Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (农工民主党) Zhigongdang of China (中国致公党) Jiusan Society (九三学社) Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (台盟) Non-partisans	2,979
Total	2,979

External links

(Chinese) Official website of the NPC

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See also: Elections in the Republic of China (1912–49)

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