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Jiang requests to resign from remaining post
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-03-04 15:36 Jiang Zemin, 78, requested to resign from his
remaining post as chairman of the State Central Military Commission (CMC) in a
letter read Friday to a presidium meeting of the National People's Congress,
China's parliament.
The presidium adopted a draft resolution to accept Jiang's request, and
decided to submit the resolution for deliberation at the upcoming 3rd session of
the NPC.
Jiang Zemin.
[file/Xinhua] | Jiang resigned from the
chairmanship of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China
(CPC) last September, and was succeeded by Hu Jintao.
The parliament session will elect a new chairman of the State Central
Military Commission, according to an agenda adopted at a preparatory meeting of
the session Friday.
Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, is expected
to succeed Jiang as chairman of the State Central Military Commission.
Jiang became chairman of the CMC of the CPC in November 1989, and chairman of
the State CMC in 1990.
In 2002, Hu Jintao succeeded him as general secretary of the CPC Central
Committee. Hu became Chinese president in 2003.
Also on Friday, the preparatory conference of the NPC session elected a
173-people presidium and a secretary general.
Approximately 3,000 members of the parliament will also hear and review the
government work report to be delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao on the opening day
of the session.
Another important agenda of the session will be the deliberation of the
anti-secession law.
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