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   100px 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

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