US EditionChina’s third most powerful official missing from Two Sessions closing due to illness
- Zhao Leji, the chairman of the National People's Congress, was absent from the closing of the Two Sessions due to a respiratory tract infection, as stated by his deputy, Li Hongzhong.
- This absence marks the first time in decades that not all Politburo Standing Committee members attended the NPC closing meeting.
- Li Hongzhong represented Zhao and announced the voting results during the session, affirming the standing committee's work and proposed tasks for the upcoming year.
- Zhao was appointed to the Politburo Standing Committee in 2017 and became chairman of the NPC in March 2023.
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China’s No. 3 Leader Absent From Major Political Session Due to Respiratory Infection
China’s third-highest official did not attend the closing session of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) rubber-stamp legislature on Tuesday, breaking a decades-long norm that has sparked speculation about the power struggles within the regime’s top ranks. Zhao Leji, head of the National People’s Congress (NPC), a rubber-stamp body under the Party’s control, was expected to preside over the annual meetings’ closing session on Tuesday afternoon…
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