The 63-year-old received nearly every vote from the more than 2,900 delegates at the National People’s Congress.
Li, the former Shanghai party chief who oversaw the city’s gruelling two-month lockdown last spring, was named the successor of outgoing premier Li Keqiang at a meeting of the country’s rubber-stamp parliament.
Delegates later applauded as Xi ceremoniously deposited his votes in the ballot box while cheerful traditional music played from speakers.An electronic screen in the hall displayed 2,936 votes for Li, with only three delegates voting against his appointment and eight abstaining. His ascension had once seemed in doubt after his handling of the Shanghai lockdown, in which residents struggled to access food and medical care.
Former top prosecutor Zhang Jun was appointed supreme court president at the same session on Saturday, while Ying Yong, who was party chief of Covid-hit Hubei province in the early months of the pandemic, was selected as procurator-general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
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