China’s parliament re-elects Xi Jinping as president

Xi Jinping has been re-elected as China's President at the National People's Congress in Beijing. Photo: AAP

Xi Jinping has secured a precedent-breaking third five-year term as China’s president and tightened his grip as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

Almost 3000 members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously on Friday in the Great Hall of the People for Xi, 69, to be president in an election where there was no other candidate.