6th National People's Congress
1982 - 1983
All 2,978 seats to the National People's Congress
1,490 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Hu Yaobang
Party Communist Minority
Leader's seat Beijing At-large
Seats before 3,116 381
Seats won 1,861 543
Seat change Decrease 1,255 Increase 162
Percentage 62.5% 18.2%
Swing Decrease 26.6% Increase 7.3%
Chairman before election

Ye Jianying
Communist

 Chairman-elect

Peng Zhen
Communist

The 6th National People's Congress (Chinese: 第六届全国人民代表大会; pinyin: Dìliù Jiè Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì) was in session from 1983 to 1988. It held five sessions in this period.

Elections to the Congress

This new Congress was the first under the current 1982 Constitution, and the first to be elected under the rules of the 1979 Electoral Law of the PRC.

In keeping with the provisions of the law, all deputies of the 6th NPC were elected indirectly from 1982 to February 1983 by the provincial-level legislatures of:

Elected state leaders

In the 1st Plenary Session in 1983, the Congress elected the state leaders:

  • President of the People's Republic of China: Li Xiannian
  • Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Peng Zhen
  • Premier of the State Council: Zhao Ziyang
  • Chairman of the Central Military Commission: Deng Xiaoping
  • President of the Supreme People's Court: Zheng Tianxiang
  • Prosecutor-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Yang Yichen
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