Xi Jinping
China’s parliament has elected Xi Jinping as president for the third time.
On Friday, Xi Jinping was elected president of China for a third term of five years.
He has consolidated his hold as the country’s most powerful leader since China’s founder, Mao Zedong.
Around 3,000 members of the National People’s Congress in Parliament unanimously voted for 69-year-old Xi Jinping to become president in The Great Hall, with no other candidates present.
Voting continued for about an hour and electronic counting was completed in about 15 minutes.
Xi Jinping was also elected to a third term as chairman of the country’s Central Military Commission.
The parliament has elected Zhao Lijie as the chairman and Han Xing as the new vice president. These two people are from the former team of President Xi Jinping.
Adrien Jages, co-author of Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World, says that he believes President Xi is not interested in power and wealth, but rather has a vision for China that will make China the most powerful country in the world. I want to see the country.
But at the start of his third term and as the second largest economy, China is facing major difficulties, challenges, slow economic growth, real estate crisis and declining birth rate.
Similarly, China’s relations with the United States are also strained and harsh sentences are exchanged between the two countries on human rights, trade and technology.
“On the world stage, we will see a China that is more confident and wants the world to accept its narrative,” says Steve Tsang, director of the SOS China Institute.