BEIJING — Fifty-two Chinese leaders were elected as delegates to attend the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing.
A total of 2,296 delegates, representing more than 96 million CPC members and 4.9 million primary-level Party organizations, will discuss and decide on major issues critical to the future of the Party and the country at the five-yearly congress.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was unanimously elected a delegate to the Party congress on April 22 in the electoral unit of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
The unanimous vote represents the common will of the CPC members and primary-level Party organizations in Guangxi, as well as the wholehearted support of the people in the region for Xi.
Guangxi officials and locals said the past decade has seen historic achievements and historic shifts in the cause of the Party and the country.
The fundamental reason is having Xi steering the cause at the core of the CPC Central Committee and the Party as a whole, as well as having the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
A series of significant achievements over the past decade signifies a milestone in the history of both the Party and the country. They include eradicating absolute poverty, attaining a much more balanced, coordinated, and sustainable economic development, and winning a sweeping victory in the anti-corruption campaign.
"Under Xi's leadership, we are living a better life," said Yang Ning, Party chief of Jiangmen village in Guangxi.
Huang Xu, the first Party secretary stationed in Baini village said that as long as we follow Xi and the CPC Central Committee, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly be realized.
The other 51 Chinese leaders were also nominated by the CPC Central Committee as candidates and put to the vote in their respective electoral units.
Xi and other members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee took part in elections in border areas with a large ethnic minority population, old revolutionary base areas, and key regions where national-level development strategies are implemented, setting an example for leading officials.
Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, and Han Zheng — who are members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee — and Vice-President Wang Qishan were elected delegates in Gansu province, Sichuan province, Tibet autonomous region, Guizhou province, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Hainan province, and Jiangsu province, respectively.
The leaders' election as delegates at respective electoral units and their attendance at group discussions of corresponding delegations at the upcoming Party congress are conducive to strengthening guidance, promoting high-quality development, furthering the implementation of major national development initiatives, as well as building China into a modern socialist country in all respects.
Lin Yuqing, deputy head of a middle school in Long'an county in Guangxi's Nanning city, said Xi's participation in the region's election means a lot. Lin said she and her fellow teachers will work tirelessly in their posts to boost education in ethnic minority regions.
Liu Lanyi, a primary-level Party official in Gansu province, said she is encouraged to do a better job in meeting the needs of residents in the neighborhood she is in charge of and help them solve their everyday concerns.
Xu Chuan, a professor at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, said Party members and officials now have a better appreciation of the fact that the strength of the CPC comes from the leadership core of the CPC Central Committee and the Party as a whole.
"We are sure that Xi will lead us to a more prosperous future," said a young village Party chief of a remote Yi ethnic autonomous county in Sichuan province, calling on fellow young people to contribute to the country's rural revitalization drive.
