National People’s Congress ends after handing Xi an unprecedented third term as president and elevating key allies to leadership roles
Xi Jinping has stressed the need to oppose pro-independence reforms in Taiwan, as he closes the National People’s Congress (NPC), after a week in which the country’s rubber-stamp parliament handed China’s president an unprecedented third presidential term, and key roles at the top of the government were reshuffled.
Xi closed the session with a speech to the gathered delegates. On Friday he secured his place as China’s most powerful leader in generations in a carefully choreographed ceremony in Beijing.
