Chinas Parliament today, with agreement of all the people has elected Xi Jinping as Chinese President for the third consecutive term, making him countrys longest serving leader since founding father Mao Zedong. He is been chosen for the next five-year term. Nearly 3,000 members of Chinas rubber stamp parliament, the National Peoples Congress, voted unanimously in the Great Hall of the People, to be the president in an election where no other candidate was there.Following Xis agreement in October to serve another five years as leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the appointment was approved by Chinas rubber-stamp parliament. Since then, the 69-year-old Xi has endured intense opposition to his zero-Covid policy as well as the untold number of fatalities that resulted from its abandonment.Central Military Commision and delegates on Friday, has voted unanimously in favour of Xi Jinping to make him the president of the country for the next five year for third consecutive term. The voting in the Great Hall of People lasted or an hour and the electronic voting took 15 minutes. Reportedly, all 2,952 NCP delegates cast a ballot approving a new mandate for Jinping. They potentially cleared the way for Jinping to run for life.Han Zheng, the vice premier of China is elected as the vice president of the country, where as Zhao Leji as the new Parliament chair by the other parliament leaders. Both the men were previously part of the Jinpings team at Politburo standing committee.Jinping took oath at the swearing-in ceremony saying, “I swear to be loyal to the constitution of the Peoples Republic of China, to uphold the authority of the constitution, to perform my statutory obligations, to be loyal to the motherland, to be loyal to the people,” promising to fulfil his duties with honesty and hard work. In the oath, beamed live on state television across the nation, he vowed to “build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and great modern socialist country”.Yet, the start of his unusual third term coincides with significant economic challenges facing the worlds second-largest economy, from sluggish growth and a shaky real estate sector to a dropping birth rate. Relations with the United States are also at an all-time low, with the two countries battling over everything from trade to technology to human rights.According to the reports, the sources has expressed the concern over the possibility of creating a new police and which would be placed directly under Xi Jinpings command. The CPC headed by Jinping has approved all the names of the new leadership few weeks ago. It is been reported that the new premier will do the annual press conference on March 13, which is also the last day of his NPCs session.Jinping has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Jinping has also served as the president of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) since 2013.Xi Jinping, in 2015 met with Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou, the first time PRC and Republic of China leaders met, though relations deteriorated after Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidential elections in 2016. He adopted a zero-COVID plan up until December 2022 in response to the COVID-19 epidemic in mainland China before switching to a mitigation approach.Political observers have called Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, specially since the ending of the second term in 2018. He also became the leader of the Central Leading Group for internet security and informatisation. In charge of cyber security and internet policy.
