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Furthermore, Article 80 gives the [[President of the People's Republic of China]] (in addition to ceremonial [[head of state]] duties) the power to proclaim martial law, proclaim a state of war, and to issue mobilisation orders upon the decision of National People's Congress and its Standing Committee.<ref name="PRC Constitution"/>

The State President and the CMC Chairman are distinctly seperateseparate state offices and they have not always been held by the same persons. However, beginning in 1993, during the tenure of [[Jiang Zemin]] as [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party|General Secretary of the Communist Party]] and CMC Chairman, it has been standard practice to have the offices of the CCP General Secretary, President, and the CMC Chairman to be [[Paramount leader|normally held by the same person]]; although the slight differences in the start and end of terms for those respective offices means that there is some overlap between an occupant and his predecessor.

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