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Xi Jinping elected Chinese president

(Xinhua)

11:40, March 14, 2013

Xi Jinping is elected president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC at the fourth plenary meeting of the first session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 14, 2013. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping was elected Chinese president Thursday morning at the ongoing session of the 12th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.

Xi, born in 1953, is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

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