A preparatory meeting of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) is held on March 4, 2010 at the Great Hall of the People . Wu Bangguo presides over the meeting.
A 170-member presidium including a secretary-general were elected to take charge of the procedures of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), which is scheduled to last 10 days.
The presidium is composed of senior officials of the Communist Party of China (CPC), non-Communist parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, personages without party affiliation, deputies from government agencies and people's organizations, and leading members of all the 35 delegations to the NPC session, including those from Hong Kong and Macao and the People's Liberation Army.
Wang Zhaoguo was elected secretary-general of the session.
