Wang Yang, currently vice-premier of the State Council, was elected chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the top political advisory body, on Wednesday in Beijing.

He was elected at the fourth plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee.

Wang, born in March 1955 in Suzhou of East China's Anhui province, is a member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

He was endorsed as the vice-premier of China's State Council in March 2013 after serving as secretary of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee between 2007 and 2012.

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