At the inaugural meeting of the 14th regional people’s congress of Jiangsu Province on Thursday, Xi Jinping was unanimously chosen to serve as a delegate to the NPC.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee proposed Xi as a candidate for the position of deputy to the 14th NPC, and the regional congress voted on the nomination.
The gathering erupted in applause when Xi’s unanimous election was announced.
Xi was one of the 144 representatives chosen in the regional congress to serve on the new NPC.More than 800 representatives to the provincial people’s congress voted unanimously in favor of Xi, expressing what they say is the aspiration of more than 85 million people living in Jiangsu Province.
China’s top legislature is known as the NPC. On March 5, Beijing will host the start of the 14th NPC’s first annual session.
The phrase “complete and rigorous Party self-governance” was introduced for the first time by Xi during an inspection tour in Jiangsu Province in December 2014, elevating its significance to a previously unheard-of degree.Some deputies said Xi’s election in the province on Thursday was the vivid practice of unswervingly advancing the full and rigorous Party self-governance, strengthening and regulating intraparty political activities in the new situation and developing whole-process people’s democracy.
“The relations between cadres and the masses have been closer, and the authority of Party organizations has been placed in a higher position,” said Zhou Zhongyang, Party secretary of a village in the province. “The Party has led us to achieve poverty elimination and rural vitalization. Our days are getting more and more prosperous.”
Jiangsu Province, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is one important part of the Yangtze River Economic Belt initiative, which China started in early 2016 with the aim to turn the region into a golden economic belt featuring a more beautiful ecology, smoother transport, a more coordinated economy, a better-integrated market, and more scientific mechanisms.
