Special Report: NPC, CPPCC Annual Sessions 2008

Xi Jinping -- Vice President of People's Republic of China

Outgoing Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong (R) shakes hands with his successor Xi Jinping after Xi was elected vice-president of China during the fifth plenary meeting of the NPC session in Beijing, capital of China, March 15, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping was elected vice-president of China at the ongoing session of the 11th National People's Congress Saturday morning.

    Xi, born in 1953, is one of the nine members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China(CPC) Central Committee, and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.