• Successor: Incumbent – Holding concurrent positions
Vice Premiers - 4
General Secretary appoints at in CCP is allowed
the start of second term
• SC elect the council of
• Last two decades – General Chairpersons (15 members)
Secretary serves two-five year – Chair of the Council – the
terms, steps down highest ranking and most senior
member
• Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, –Vice Chairs – 14 members
both stepped down after two one of whom is Secretary
–five year terms General
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• 20th Party Congress October Demographics, 13th National
2022 – norms not observed People’s Congress
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The SC of the Politburo • Ethnicity
○ Han 85%
• General Secretary, highest ○ Hui 2.1%
most senior member ○ Manchu 1.4%
○ Miao 1.4%
• Standing Committee ○ Mongol –1.2%
– Most senior ruling elite ○ Tibetan – 1.1%
– Wields the political power of ○ Uyghur – 0.8%;
the Party ○ Zhuang – 0.8%;
– New SC formed March 2023 ○ There are 55 officially
post Party and NPCCongresses recognized ethnic groups
• 20th Party Congress and NPC ○ AGE: 55% ARE IN THE
14th Congress 50-59 AGE GROUP:
• Xi Jin Ping, 70 years old, was ○ YOUNGEST IS 22 AND
elected to a third term OLDEST IS 88
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NPC – process of election ○ Female: 25%; Male (75%)
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•Election /selection is bottom up Demographics, 14th National
– • 35 electoral units People’s Congress
– • Voters/electors: Delegates
to provincial-level People’s • Ethnic Groups
Congress, members of election Minorities 15%
council of the PLA, Hong King, - Hui;
Macao and Taiwan - Manchu;
- Miao;
• List of candidates– drawn by - Mongol;
the Party - Tibetan;
- Uyghur;
• 2980 delegates are elected - Zhuang
every 5 years o Han 85%
o Female 27%; Male 73%
• The 2980 elected delegates ========================
elect the 175 members of the The State Council
Standing Committee (SC)
–The SC members are not 1. President
allowed to hold office in any 2. Vice President
state offices/bodies 3. Premier
4.
5. State Councilors - 5
6. Secretary General
State Council - the highest
administrative organ
Premier – highest ranking
member
Officials- appointed; can be
removed by the NPC and
NPCSC.
–President/VP ceremonial roles
State Council - formulate
administrative regulations and
drafts most legislative bills that
come before the NPC and
NPCSC.
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The Central Military
Commission (CMC)
• Party and State CMC –
identical members
• Has unified command over
Armed Forces
• Central Committee of the Party
( slide 7) appoints the Party
CMC
• Incumbent and retired top
leaders provide the list
• Party CMC – 7 members
–Chairman (non-military)
–Vice Chairman (2 military
officers)
–Members (4 military officers)
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China’s Armed Forces
1. Army
2. Navy
3. Air Force
4. Rocket Force
5. Strategic Support Force
6. Armed Police Force
7. Reserve Force
8. Southern, Wester, Northern and
Central Theatre Command
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