Top leader elected as delegate to CPC National Congress

Xi Jinping was elected as a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China by a unanimous vote on April 22 at the CPC congress of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Xi was nominated by the CPC Central Committee as a candidate for delegate to the 20th CPC National Congress, which is scheduled to be held in the second half of this year.

The regional CPC congress was held on April 21-22 in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, and the announcement of Xi’s unanimous election was greeted with a burst of long and warm applause.

Delegates at the congress said Xi’s election reflected the shared wish of the more than 2.5 million Party members and 150,000 grassroots Party organizations in Guangxi, and fully demonstrated the hearty support of the region’s 57 million people for Xi.

According to a statement issued by the CPC Central Committee in November, a total of 2,300 delegates to the Party’s 20th National Congress will be elected by 38 electoral units across the country, and the election will be completed by the end of June.

Xi was elected as a delegate to the Party’s 19th National Congress by a unanimous vote at the CPC Guizhou provincial congress in 2017.