3rd National People's Congress

Chinese Congressional election, 1963-64

All 3,040 seats to the National People's Congress
Majority party Minority party   File:Mao Zedong portrait.jpg Leader Mao Zedong Party Communist Minority Alliance United Front United Front Seats before 1048 178 Seats won 2668 372 Percentage 87.76% 12.24% Swing 2.36% 2.36%
Chairman before election Zhu De Communist Chairman-elect Zhu De Communist

The 3rd National People's Congress (simplified Chinese: 第三届全国人民代表大会; traditional Chinese: 第三屆全國人民代表大會; pinyin: Dìsān Jiè Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì) was in session from 1964 to 1975. It held only one session in the ten years.

The session was held from December 21, 1964, till January 4, 1965. The Congress elected the state leaders:

• President of the People's Republic of China: Liu Shaoqi
• Vice President of the People's Republic of China: Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
• Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Zhu De
• Premier of the State Council: Zhou Enlai
• President of the Supreme People's Court: Yang Xiufeng
• Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Zhang Dingcheng

External links

• (in Chinese) Official website of the NPC