- On 10 March, China's Xi Jinping was sworn in for his third term as the country's President.
- Xi Jinping, who leads the ruling Communist Party, has become China's longest-serving head of state since the Communist victory in 1949.
- The country's 3,000-member rubber-stamp legislature formally appoints him as president for the next five years.
- There was no other candidate in the election.
- Xi has also been elected as the chairman of China's Central Military Commission for a third term.
- In October 2022, Xi Jinping was re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party for a record third five-year term.
- In 2018, Xi Jinping himself removed the two-term limit on the presidency.
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