Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has secured an unprecedented third term as the country’s top leader, becoming the most influential leader of China after Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
Xi Jinping was elected as the General Secretary of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the first plenary session held on Sunday.
The session was presided over by Xi Jinping and was attended by 203 members of the 20th CPC Central Committee and 168 alternate members.
Xi was further elected as the Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission during the proceedings of the meeting.
According to a CNN report, the once-in-five-year National Congress concluded after a week-long meeting. The Congress revealed the newly-formed Central Committee, the party’s main leadership body, which included Xi. Of the 205 members listed, only 11 are women.
Saturday’s preceding was marred by controversy surrounding former President Hu Jintao’s unceremonious exit from Congress. The 79-year-old former leader, Xi Jinping’s predecessor, was unexpectedly led out of the hall by two men during the closing ceremony.
According to Chinese state media, Hu was “not feeling well” when he was unexpectedly removed from the closing ceremony of the 20th Congress of China’s Communist Party on Saturday.
(With Agency Inputs)