{"id":18357,"date":"2008-03-15T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/wen-jiabao-re-elected-chinas-pm-state-media\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:47:53","slug":"wen-jiabao-re-elected-chinas-pm-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/wen-jiabao-re-elected-chinas-pm-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Wen Jiabao Re-elected China&#8217;s PM: State Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From AFP, via <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/World\/Wen_Jiabao_re-elected_Chinas_PM_State_media\/articleshow\/2870261.cms\">Times of India<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China&#8217;s parliament on Sunday re-elected Wen Jiabao as the nation&#8217;s premier for five more years, state-run <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-03\/16\/content_7799253.htm\">Xinhua news agency said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Wen, 65, was the sole candidate for the job. Xinhua did not immediately give the number of votes cast in favour of Wen. <\/p>\n<p>While the premier is nominally number three in China&#8217;s political system, the position is widely seen as the second-most important, after that of Communist Party secretary general, an office currently held by President Hu Jintao. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read also <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-03\/16\/content_7799359.htm\">Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou approved to be CMC vice-chairmen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-03\/16\/content_7799387.htm\">Wang Shengjun elected China&#8217;s top judge<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-03\/16\/content_7799393.htm\">Cao Jianming elected China&#8217;s top procurator<\/a> by Xinhua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AFP, via Times of India: China&#8217;s parliament on Sunday re-elected Wen Jiabao as the nation&#8217;s premier for five more years, state-run Xinhua news agency said. Wen, 65, was the sole candidate for the job. Xinhua did not immediately give the number of votes cast in favour of Wen. While the premier is nominally number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[15349,6536,5936],"class_list":["post-18357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-ccp-leadership","tag-npc-2008","tag-wen-jiabao","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wen Jiabao Re-elected China&#039;s PM: State Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/wen-jiabao-re-elected-chinas-pm-state-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wen Jiabao Re-elected China&#039;s PM: State Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From AFP, via Times of India: China&#8217;s parliament on Sunday re-elected Wen Jiabao as the nation&#8217;s premier for five more years, state-run Xinhua news agency said. 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