# National People’s Congress appoints Li Qiang premier on Xi Jinping’s nomination

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 11 March 2023 China’s National People’s Congress appointed [Li Qiang](/people/li-qiang) premier with 2,936 votes for, 3 against and 8 abstentions, after nomination by [Xi Jinping](/people/env-person-xi-jinping). He had not served as vice premier. Xi Jinping is the live nominator. This run does not mint a twin. The appointment is not hung on [territorial-revisionism](/drivers/territorial-revisionism).

## Context

The 14th State Council followed. December 2022 unwind is neighbouring. Shanghai 2022 is a prior row.

October 2022 PSC ranking; 11 March 2023 NPC vote. Store the NPC appointment as the instrument. Keep National People’s Congress appoints Li Qiang premier on Xi Jinping’s nomination on 2023-03-11 separate from neighbouring spring 2022 Shanghai lockdown and 11 March 2023 NPC appointment.

China’s premier chairs the State Council. He does not write Politburo Standing Committee minutes, a unique Shanghai death integer, or Taiwan policy as this Contribution. The 2022 lockdown sat under a national zero-COVID line. Xi Jinping nominated the premiership. This run does not mint a twin.

## Evidence and sources

State Council of the People’s Republic of China carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is Xi-loyalist premiership: a completed NPC appointment of a provincial loyalist without a vice-premier apprenticeship.

## What is established and what is not

Established: An 11 March 2023 NPC appointment as premier with 2,936 votes, independently recorded.

Not established: That he wrote PSC minutes, or a unique later GDP coefficient as Contribution.size.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Xi nominated. He accepted. He had not been vice premier.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies National People’s Congress appoints Li Qiang premier on Xi Jinping’s nomination, not a later speech about National People’s Congress appoints Li Qiang premier on Xi Jinping’s nomination.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. National People’s Congress appoints Li Qiang premier on Xi Jinping’s nomination on 2023-03-11 is not a licence to treat every later State Council of the People’s Republic of China communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average National People’s Congress appoints Li Qiang premier on Xi Jinping’s nomination into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The NPC appointed him. Xi nominated. He accepted. He had not been vice premier. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Li Qiang: https://factrail.ai/people/li-qiang

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/china/urgent-chinas-xi-nominates-li-qiang-become-premier-xinhua-2023-03-11/
- https://english.www.gov.cn/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-li-qiang-premier-2023