AKIPRESS.COM - China’s ceremonial legislature appointed Premier Li Keqiang, the No. 2 leader of the ruling Communist Party, to a second five-year term Sunday and approved the appointment of a director for a new anti-corruption agency with sweeping powers.

National People’s Congress delegates voted 2,964 to 2 to approve Li’s appointment.

The vote came a day after party leader Xi Jinping was reappointed China’s president with no limits on how many terms he can serve, CNN reported.

The premier traditionally is China’s top economic official, but Xi, the country’s most dominant leader since Mao Zedong, has stripped Li of many of the post’s most prominent duties by appointing himself to lead party bodies that oversee economic reform and state industry.