The 5th

National People's Congress The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2,9 ...

() was in session from 1978 to 1983. It succeeded the

4th National People's Congress The 4th National People's Congress () was in session from 1975 to 1978. It held only one session, in January 1975. There were 2864 deputies to this Congress. The Congress passed the 1975 Constitution of the People's Republic of China. Elected st ...

. It held five plenary sessions in this period. The Congress passed the

1978 Constitution of the People's Republic of China The 1978 Constitution of the People's Republic of China was promulgated in 1978. This was the PRC's 3rd constitution, and was adopted at the 1st Meeting of the 5th National People's Congress on March 5, 1978, two years after the downfall of the ...

and the current

Constitution of the People's Republic of China The Constitution of the People's Republic of China is the supreme law of the People's Republic of China. It was adopted by the 5th National People's Congress on December 4, 1982, with further revisions about every five years. It is the fou ...

in 1982.

Elected state leaders

*President and Vice President: ''Posts abolished'' *Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress:

Ye Jianying Ye Jianying (; 28 April 1897 – 22 October 1986) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the founding Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. He was the top military leader in the 1976 coup that overthre ...

*Premier of the State Council:

Hua Guofeng Hua Guofeng (; born Su Zhu; 16 February 1921 – 20 August 2008), alternatively spelled as Hua Kuo-feng, was a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and Premier of the People's Republic of China. The desig ...

*President of the Supreme People's Court:

Jiang Hua Jiang Hua (August 1, 1907 – December 24, 1999) was a Chinese politician and President of the Supreme People's Court of China. Biography Jiang Hua was born in Jianghua, Hunan. He was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of China in Zh ...

*Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Huang Huoqing

External links

Official website of the NPC
{{Authority control National People's Congresses 1978 in China