New premier,
CMC vice-chairmen approved (03/16/2003)
Newly-elected Chinese President Hu Jintao was renamed vice-chairman
of the Cental Military Commission (CMC) of the People's Republic of
China Sunday morning, and 60-year-old Wen Jiabao was approved by law-makers
to succeed Zhu Rongji as premier.
Hu and Wen were voted in by 2,948 NPC deputies at the 6th plenary
meeting of the First Session of the 10th National People's Congress
(NPC), China's top legislature.
Through secret balloting, 64-year-old Xiao Yang was re-elected
president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), while Jia Chunwang,
64 became the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
(SPP).
CMC vice-chairmen Guo Boxiong and Cao Gangchuan, along with CMC
members Xu Caihou, Liang Guanglie, Liao Xilong and Li Jinai, were
also approved at the meeting, presided by executive chairman Zeng
Qinghong of the session's presidium.
China's Constitution stipulates that the candidate for the premier
of the State Council be nominated by the President, and the candidates
for vice-chairmen and members of the CMC be named by the CMC chairman;
and all candidates be subject to voting at the NPC.
According to the rules of election and appointment adopted at
the NPC session, the appointment of the above posts and the election
of the president of the SPC and the procurator-general of the SPP
follow the single-candidate system, that is, they were appointed
or elected from the equal number of candidates by secret ballots.
The candidates only need a simple majority.
(xinhua)
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