The 9th National People's Congress (simplified Chinese: 第九届全国人民代表大会; traditional Chinese: 第九屆全國人民代表大會; pinyin: Dìjiǔ Jiè Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì) was in session from 1998 to 2003. It held five plenary sessions in this period. It followed the final session of the 8th National People's Congress. There were 2,979 deputies to this Congress.
President of the People's Republic of China: Jiang Zemin
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Li Peng
Premier of the State Council: Zhu Rongji
Chairman of the Central Military Commission: Jiang Zemin
President of the Supreme People's Court: Xiao Yang
Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Han Zhubin
Congress results[]
This was the first congress in which deputies were elected representing the Hong Kong SAR and the new directly-administered city of Chongqing.
Elections were held from October 1997 to February 1998 by the 22 provincial and 5 autonomous regional legislatures, as well as the city legislatures of the four directly-administered municipalities, which elected their deputies to the NPC.