5th National People's Congress

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American EnglishTemplate:Infobox Central Committee outline Template:Politics of the People's Republic of China The 5th National People's Congress (NPC) was in session from 1978 to 1983. It succeeded the 4th National People's Congress. It held five plenary sessions in this period.

Seat distribution

Major party		Chairman	Seats
style="background: Template:Party color" |	Chinese Communist Party	Hua Guofeng Hu Yaobang	3,116
Other Parties		Chairperson	Seats
style="background: Template:Party color" |	Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party	Ji Fang	381
style="background: Template:Party color" |	Jiusan Society	Xu Deheng
style="background: Template:Party color" |	China Democratic League	Shi Liang
style="background: Template:Party color" |	China Association for Promoting Democracy	Zhou Jianren
style="background: Template:Party color" |	China National Democratic Construction Association	Hu Juewen
style="background: Template:Party color" |	Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang	Zhu Yunshan Wang Kunlun
style="background: Template:Party color" |	Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League	Cai Xiao
style="background: Template:Party color" |	China Zhi Gong Party	Huang Dingchen
	Independents	N/A

The first session

• Chairman and Vice Chairman: Posts abolished
• Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Ye Jianying
• Premier of the State Council: Hua Guofeng
• President of the Supreme People's Court: Jiang Hua
• Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Huang Huoqing

At the first session, the NPC passed the 1978 Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

The fifth session

At the fifth session in 1982, the NPC passed the current Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

External links

• Template:In lang Official website of the NPC