Presidium of the National People's Congress

It is composed of 178 senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the state, non-Communist parties and All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, those without party affiliation, heads of central government agencies and people's organizations, leading members of all the 35 delegations to the National People's Congress (NPC) session including those from Hong Kong, Macao, and the People's Liberation Army.{{Cite web |title=第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议主席团和秘书长名单_中国人大网 |url=http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/2018-03/04/content_2041137.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309194954/http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/2018-03/04/content_2041137.htm |archive-date=2018-03-09 |access-date=2018-04-04 |website=National People's Congress |language=zh}}{{Non-primary source needed|date=December 2024}} The presidium is elected during a meeting preceding the sitting of a new session of the NPC, which is presided over by the outgoing Standing Committee of the NPC.{{cite web |title=Organic Law of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, CHAPTER I SESSIONS OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS |url=http://www.asianlii.org/cn/legis/cen/laws/ropftnpcotproc759/ |access-date=25 December 2021 |website=AsianLII |publisher=Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress |archive-date=25 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225235954/http://www.asianlii.org/cn/legis/cen/laws/ropftnpcotproc759/ |url-status=live }}{{Non-primary source needed|date=December 2024}} In practice, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress drafts a list of candidates, then presides over a preparatory meeting of the NPC that revises and approves the list. After the Presidium has been elected, it presides over the rest of the NPC session.{{Cite web |title=中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会议事规则_中国人大网 |url=http://www.npc.gov.cn/wxzl/wxzl/2000-12/05/content_4520.htm |website=National People's Congress |language=zh |access-date=2018-02-25 |archive-date=2018-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305063516/http://www.npc.gov.cn/wxzl/wxzl/2000-12/05/content_4520.htm |url-status=live }}{{Non-primary source needed|date=December 2024}} Officers of the presidium include a number of standing chairmen elected at the first meeting of the presidium. Its functions are defined in the Organic Law of the NPC, but not how it is composed.

The presidium schedules sessions of the NPC, and decides the procedure of voting on bills and proposals. It also nominates for election by the NPC the:{{cite book|title=Whither China's Democracy: Democratization in China Since the Tiananmen Incident|last=林 (Lin)|first=峰 (Feng)|editor-last=郑 (Cheng)|editor-first=宇硕(Joseph Y. S.)|editor-link=:zh:鄭宇碩|publisher=City University of Hong Kong Press|year=2011|pages=65–99|isbn=978-962-937-181-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hc5lrfnaOzkC&pg=PA68|ref={{harvid|Lin|2011}}}} At pp. 68–69.

• President and Vice President of China
• Chairman, Vice Chairperson, and Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the NPC
• Chairman of the Central Military Commission
• President of the Supreme People's Court
• Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate

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