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Not to be confused with National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party or Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

The National People's Congress (NPC) is the highest organ of state power of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The NPC is the only branch of government in China, and per the principle of unified power, all state organs from the State Council to the Supreme People's Court (SPC) are subservient to it. With 2,977 members in 2023, it is the largest legislative body in the world. The NPC is elected for a term of five years. It holds annual sessions every spring, usually lasting from 10 to 14 days, in the Great Hall of the People on the west side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China

中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会
14th National People's Congress
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
History
Founded15 September 1954
(70 years ago) (1954-09-15)
Preceded byChinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Leadership
Zhao Leji, CCP
since 10 March 2023
Liu Qi, CCP
since 10 March 2023
Structure
SeatsNPC: 2977 deputies
NPCSC: 175 members
NPC political groups
  •   CCP and Independents (2,569)
  •   CPWDP (60)
  •   JS (56)
  •   CDL (55)
  •   CAPD (54)
  •   CNDCA (44)
  •   RCCK (41)
  •   CZGP (39)
  •   TDSL (13)
  •   Vacant (46)
NPCSC political groups
Length of term
5 years
Elections
Indirect modified block combined approval voting[1][2][3][4]
Indirect modified block combined approval voting[1][2][3][4]
Last NPC election
December 2022 – January 2023
Last NPCSC election
11 March 2023
Next NPC election
Late 2027 – early 2028
Next NPCSC election
March 2028
RedistrictingStanding Committee of the National People's Congress
Meeting place
Great Hall of the People
Xicheng District, Beijing, China
Website
en.npc.gov.cn.cdurl.cn Edit this at Wikidata
Constitution
Constitution of the People's Republic of China
Rules
Rules of Procedure for the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (English)
National People's Congress
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese全国人民代表大会
Traditional Chinese全國人民代表大會
Literal meaningNationwide People Representative Assembly
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQuánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì
Abbreviation
Simplified Chinese全国人大
Traditional Chinese全國人大
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQuánguó Réndà
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་མི་ཚོགས་ཆེན་
Transcriptions
Wyliergyal yongs mi dmangs 'thus mi tshogs chen
Zhuang name
ZhuangDaengx Guek Yinzminz Daibyauj Daihhoih
Korean name
Hangul전국인민대표대회
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicБөх улсын ардын төлөөлөгчдийн их хурал
Mongolian scriptᠪᠦᠬᠦ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ
ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ
ᠲᠦᠯᠤᠭᠡᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢᠳ ᠤᠨ
ᠶᠡᠭᠡ ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠯ
Uyghur name
Uyghurمەملىكەتلىك خەلق قۇرۇلتىيى‎
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiMemliketlik xelq qurultiyi
Yengi YeziⱪMəmlikətlik həlⱪ ⱪurultiyi
Kazakh name
Kazakhمەملەكەتتىك حالىق قۇرىلتايى
Yi name
Yiꇩꏤꑭꊂꏓꂱꁧꎁꃀꀉꒉ

Since Chinese politics functions within a communist state framework based on the system of people's congress, the NPC works under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Some observers characterize the branch as a rubber stamp body.[note 1] Most delegates to the NPC are officially elected by local people's congresses at the provincial level; local legislatures which are indirectly elected at all levels except the county-level. The CCP controls the nomination and election processes at every level in the people's congress system.

The National People's Congress meets in full session for roughly two weeks each year and votes on important pieces of legislation and personnel assignments, among other things. These sessions are usually timed to occur with the meetings of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a consultative body whose members represent various social groups. As the NPC and the CPPCC are the main deliberative bodies of China, they are often referred to as the Two Sessions (Lianghui). According to the NPC, its annual meetings provide an opportunity for the officers of state to review past policies and to present future plans to the nation. Due to the temporary nature of the plenary sessions, most of NPC's power is delegated to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC), which consists of about 170 legislators and meets in continuous bi-monthly sessions, when its parent NPC is not in session.

Membership to the congress is part-time in nature and carries no pay. Delegates to the National People's Congress are allowed to hold seats in other bodies of government simultaneously and the party and the NPC typically includes all of the senior officials in Chinese politics. However, membership of the Standing Committee is often full-time and carries a salary, and Standing Committee members are not allowed to simultaneously hold positions in executive, judicial, prosecutorial or supervisory posts. Under China's Constitution, the NPC is structured as a unicameral legislature, with the power to amend the Constitution, legislate and oversee the operations of the government, and elect the major officers of the National Supervisory Commission, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Central Military Commission, and the state.

History

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The current National People's Congress can trace its origins to the Chinese Soviet Republic beginning in 1931 where the First National Congress of the Chinese Soviets of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies was held on 7 November 1931, in Ruijin, Jiangxi on the 14th anniversary of the October Revolution with another Soviet Congress that took place in Fujian on 18 March 1932, the 61st Anniversary of the Paris Commune. A Second National Congress took place from 22 January to 1 February 1934. During the event, only 693 deputies were elected with the Chinese Red Army taking 117 seats.[10]

In 1945 after World War II, the CCP and the Kuomintang held a Political Consultative Conference with the parties holding talks on post-World War II political reforms. This was included in the Double Tenth Agreement, which was implemented by the Nationalist government, who organized the first Political Consultative Assembly from 10 to 31 January 1946. Representatives of the Kuomintang, CCP, Young China Party, and China Democratic League, as well as independent delegates, attended the conference in Chongqing, temporary capital of China.[11]

A second Political Consultative Conference took place in September 1949, inviting delegates from various friendly parties to attend and discuss the establishment of a new state (PRC). This conference was then renamed the People's Political Consultative Conference. The first conference approved the Common Program, which served as the de facto constitution for the next five years. The conference approved the new national anthem, flag, capital city, and state name, and elected the first government of the People's Republic of China.[12] It was a de facto legislature of the PRC during the first five years of existence.[13]

In 1954, the Constitution transferred this function to the National People's Congress.[14][15]

Powers and duties

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Main article: System of people's congress

Under the constitution, the NPC is the highest organ of state power in China, and all four Chinese constitutions have granted it a large amount of lawmaking power.[16] The presidency, the State Council, the PRC Central Military Commission, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the National Supervisory Commission are all formally under the authority of the NPC.[16]

The constitution guarantees the CCP a leadership role, and the NPC therefore does not serve as a forum of debate between government and opposition parties as is the case with Western parliaments.[17][18][19] This has led to the NPC being described as a rubber stamp legislature[20][21][22][23] or as only being able to affect issues of low sensitivity and salience to the CCP.[19] Legislation typically passes quickly, but there are notable examples where laws do not get through the NPC, and negative votes have become more commonplace since its inception.[24]

According to academic Rory Truex of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, NPC "deputies convey citizen grievances but shy away from sensitive political issues, and the government in turn displays partial responsiveness to their concerns."[19] According to Austin Ramzy, writing for The New York Times, the NPC "is a carefully crafted pageant intended to convey the image of a transparent, responsive government."[25] One of the NPC's members, Hu Xiaoyan, told BBC News in 2009 that she has no power to help her constituents. She was quoted as saying, "As a parliamentary representative, I don't have any real power."[26]

Formally, there are four main functions and powers of the NPC:[27][non-primary source needed]

Constitutional amendment and enforcement

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The NPC has the sole power to amend the Constitution.[16] Amendments to the Constitution must be proposed by the NPC Standing Committee or one-fifth or more of the NPC deputies. In order for the Amendments to become effective, they must be passed by a two-thirds majority vote of all deputies.[16][28] The NPC is also responsible for supervising the enforcement of the constitution.[29]

The CCP leadership plays a large role in the approval of constitutional amendments. In contrast to ordinary legislation, which the CCP leadership approves the legislation in principle, and in which the legislation is then introduced by government ministers or individual NPC delegates, constitutional amendments are drafted and debated within the party, approved by the CCP Central Committee and then presented by party deputies under the Standing Committee to the whole of the NPC during its yearly plenary session. If Congress is on recess and the Standing Committee is in session, the same process is repeated by either the party leader in the NPCSC or by one of the party deputies, but following the approval by the NPCSC, the amendments will be presented during the plenary session to all of the deputies for a final vote on the matter. If a fifth or more of the CCP party faction deputies will propose amendments either on their own or with the other parties in plenary session, the same process is applied.[30] In contrast to ordinary legislation, in which the Legislation Law largely directs the process, the process for constitutional revision is largely described by CCP documents.[30]

In addition to passing legislation, the NPCSC interacts with local governments through its constitutional review process. In contrast with other jurisdictions by which constitutional enforcement is considered a judicial power, in Chinese political theory, constitutional enforcement is considered a legislative power, and Chinese courts do not have the authority to determine constitutionality of legislation or administrative measures. Challenges to constitutionality have therefore become the responsibility of the National People's Congress which has a recording and review mechanism for constitutional issues.[31] The NPC has created a set of institutions which monitor local administrative measures for constitutionality.[31] Typically, the Legislative Affairs Committee will review legislation for constitutionality and then inform the enacting agencies of its findings, and rely on the enacting agency to reverse its decision. Although the NPC has the legal authority to annul unconstitutional legislation by a local government, it has never used that power.[31]

Legislation

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The NPC's has the sole power to "enact and amend basic criminal and civil laws, basic laws governing the State organs, and other basic laws".[32] To do this, the NPC acts in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the People's Republic in regards to its legislative activities. When the congress is in recess, its Standing Committee enacts all legislation presented to it by the CCP Central Committee, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, other government organs or by the deputies themselves either of the standing committee or those of the committees within the NPC.[33]

The primary role of the CCP in the legislative process largely is exercised during the proposal and drafting of any legislation.[34] Before the NPC considers legislation, there are working groups which study the proposed topic, and CCP leadership must first agree to any legislative changes before they are presented to either the full Congress or the NPCSC.[35][better source needed]

Electing and appointing state leaders

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The NPC elects and appoints top-level positions in the Chinese state.[36]: 59–60  The following positions are elected:[37]

The following positions are appointed:[37]

Elections and appointments differ in that elections can theoretically be competitive with multiple candidates submitted by the Presidium, or with write-in votes by the delegates, while the delegates can only vote for the official nominee in appointments. However, nearly all of the elections are non-competitive with a single candidate, with only elections for the regular members of the NPCSC being competitive since 1988.[37]

The election and appointments for high-ranking posts are effectively decided secretly within the CCP months in advance, with NPC delegates having no say in these decisions. Elections in extraordinary circumstances have a similar approach with CCP involvement.[16] According to official accounts, in a normal election, the process of selecting the nominees generally entails repeated discussions between Party leaders, multiple rounds of discussions with CCP members in high-ranking positions and with major non-Party organizations, as well as anti-corruption and political review of the potential candidates.[37]

The list of candidates is then approved first by the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, and then by its Politburo. If the candidates in question are nominated for a top-level position, in a special plenary session the Central Committee also endorses the nominees just before the NPC session for election by the Congress.[37] Before the plenum ends, the CCP customarily holds a "democratic consultative meeting", formally informing non-CCP organizations, such as the eight minor political parties, of the proposed nominees and soliciting their views on the candidates.[37]

Full Central Committee endorsement for lower-level positions, such as regular NPCSC members, the State Council Secretary-General and departmental heads, and all members of the Special Committees and their committee chairpersons, is also expected.[37] During the NPC session, the official in the Presidium in charge of personnel explains the proposed nominees and the selection process to the delegates. The delegates are then granted the short bios of the candidates, and given time for "deliberations and consultations", or simply "deliberations" for the appointed positions.[37]

Determining major state issues worthy of legislative action

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The NPC's other legislative work is creating legislation on, examining, and reviewing major national issues of concern presented to the Congress by either the CCP Central Committee, the State Council, or its own deputies either of the NPCSC or its committees. These include legislation on the report on the plan for national economic and social development and on its implementation, the national budget, and other matters. The Basic Laws of both the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region, and the laws creating Hainan Province and Chongqing Municipality and the building of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River were all passed by the NPC in plenary session, legislation passed by the Standing Committee when it is in recess carry the same weight as those of the whole of the Congress. In performing these responsibilities either as a whole chamber or by its Standing Committee, the NPC acts in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of the People's Republic in acting on these issues in aid of legislation.[33][non-primary source needed]

In practice, although the final votes on laws of the NPC often return a high affirmative vote, a great deal of legislative activity occurs in determining the content of the legislation to be voted on. A major bill such as the Securities Law can take years to draft, and a bill sometimes will not be put before a final vote if there is significant opposition to the measure either within the Congress or by deputies in the Standing Committee.[38]

Foreign outreach

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Like all official organs, the NPC is responsible for carrying out united front work. The NPC conducts outreach campaigns with foreign legislatures and parliamentarians for relationship-building and promotion of major CCP policy initiatives.[39]

Membership

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The Election Law restricts the NPC's maximum size to 3,000 deputy seats.[40] Under the people's congress system, the NPC is elected by the 32 people's congresses at the province-level; people's congresses are indirectly elected at all levels by the congress at the level below, except at the county and township level.[41] Additionally, delegations are allocated to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, as well as the claimed province of Taiwan.[40]

Membership to the congress is part-time in nature and carries no pay, with deputies spending around 49 weeks per year at their home provinces.[42] NPC members may be elected to represent a province that they do not live in.[36]: 61  Delegates have the legal right to make speeches in the full chamber of the Great Hall of the People during NPC sessions, though they rarely exercise this right.[43] Delegates are allowed to simultaneously hold seats in other bodies of government and the party and the NPC typically includes all of the senior officials in Chinese politics.[44][non-primary source needed]

The CCP maintains control over the composition of deputies of people's congresses, especially in the National People's Congress.[45] By law, all elections at all levels must adhere to the leadership of the CCP.[46] Although CCP approval is, in effect, essential for membership in the NPC, approximately a third of the seats are by convention reserved for non-CCP members. This includes technical experts and deputies of the eight minor parties.[47] While these members provide technical expertise and a somewhat greater diversity of views, they do not function as a political opposition.[48]

The Election Law requires the composition of NPC delegates to be "broadly representative". Since the beginning of the reform and opening up era in 1978, the each NPC at their last session have released a "decision on the quotas and elections" for the next NPC, allocating a certain number of seats for demographic groups or setting forth guidelines on a groups representation.[40]

Demographics of National People's Congresses

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Congress Year Total deputies Female deputies Female % Minority deputies Minority % Ref
1st 1954 1226 147 12 178 14.5 [49]
2nd 1959 1226 150 12.2 179 14.6 [49]
3rd 1964 3040 542 17.8 372 12.2 [49]
4th 1975 2885 653 22.6 270 9.4 [49]
5th 1978 3497 742 21.2 381 10.9 [49]
6th 1983 2978 632 21.2 403 13.5 [49]
7th 1988 2978 634 21.3 445 14.9 [49]
8th 1993 2978 626 21 439 14.8 [49]
9th 1998 2979 650 21.8 428 14.4 [49]
10th 2003 2985 604 20.2 414 13.9 [49]
11th 2008 2987 637 21.3 411 13.8 [50]
12th 2013 2987 699 23.4 409 13.7 [51]
13th 2018 2980 742 24.9 438 14.7 [52]
14th 2023 2977 790 26.5 442 14.8 [53]

Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan delegations

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Hong Kong has had a separate delegation since the 9th NPC in 1998, and Macau since the 10th NPC in 2003. The delegates from Hong Kong and Macau are elected via an electoral college rather than by popular vote, but do include significant political figures who are residing in the two regions.[54] Since their transfer of sovereignty, Hong Kong and Macau have been given 36 and 12 deputies elected to the NPC respectively.[40]

The NPC has included a "Taiwan" delegation since the 4th NPC in 1975, in line with the PRC's position that Taiwan is a province of China. Prior to the 2000s, the Taiwan delegates in the NPC were mostly Taiwanese members of the Chinese Communist Party who fled Taiwan after 1947. They are now either deceased or elderly, and in the last three Congresses, only one of the "Taiwan" deputies was actually born in Taiwan (Chen Yunying, wife of economist Justin Yifu Lin); the remainder are "second-generation Taiwan compatriots", whose parents or grandparents came from Taiwan.[55][better source needed]

Delegations from Taiwan are chosen by "consultative election meetings" composed of 120 "compatriots of Taiwanese ancestry" hailing from various provinces in China, the central government and party agencies, and the military. Since the 6th NPC, Taiwan has been given 6 deputies at the NPC.[40]

 
The 12th National People's Congress held in 2013

Military delegation

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The military sends its own delegation to the NPC, which is elected by servicemember election committees of top-level military subdivisions, including the PLA's theater commands and service branches. After the People's Armed Police (PAP) was placed under the command of the Central Military Commission in 2018, the PLA and PAP have formed a joint delegation.[40] The PLA delegation has been amongst the largest since the founding of the NPC, making up anywhere from 4 percent of the total delegates (3rd NPC), to 17 percent (4th NPC). Since the 5th NPC, it has usually held about 9 percent of the total delegate seats, and is consistently the largest delegation in the NPC.[40] In the 14th NPC, for example, the PLA and PAP delegation has 281 deputies; the next largest delegation is Shandong, with 173 deputies.[56]

Ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese delegates

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A 150-seat quota for ethnic minorities was enacted in China's first election law in 1953. The 1982 constitution mandates that every ethnic minority should have "an appropriate number of delegates". The 5th NPC abandoned an explicit quota for ethnic minorities, substituting it with an allocation of "approximately 12%" of all seats for the next NPC, a practice followed by all subsequent NPC meetings.[40] Per the Election Law, the NPCSC is authorized to allocate the quota seats to each provincial delegation based on the "population and distribution". The law also requires that each of China's 55 official ethnic minorities have at least one elected deputy to Congress.[40]

For the first three NPCs, there was a special delegation for returned overseas Chinese, but this was eliminated starting in the 4th NPC, and although overseas Chinese remain a recognized group in the NPC, they are now scattered among the various delegations.[40]

Background of delegates

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The Hurun Report has tracked the wealth of some of the NPC's delegates: in 2018, the 153 delegates classed by the report as "super rich" (including China's wealthiest person, Ma Huateng) had a combined wealth of $650 billion.[22] This was up from a combined wealth of $500 billion for the wealthiest 209 delegates in 2017, when (according to state media) 20% of delegates were private entrepreneurs.[57] In 2013, 90 delegates were among the richest 1000 Chinese, each having a net worth of at least 1.8 billion yuan ($289.4 million). This richest 3% of delegates' average net worth was $1.1 billion (compared to an average net worth of $271 million for the richest 3% in the United States Congress at the time).[58]

Structure

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Presidium

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Main article: Presidium of the National People's Congress

Before each plenary meeting of the NPC, a preparatory meeting is held, where a Presidium and a Secretary-General for the session is elected.[59][non-primary source needed] The Presidium presides over the NPC plenary meetings, determining its daily schedule, decides whether to list a delegate's bill on the agenda, hear delegate deliberation reports and decides whether to put an item to vote, nominates the candidates for the top state offices,[60] and organizes the constitutional oath of office ceremonies.[61] Its functions are defined in the Organic Law of the NPC, but not how it is composed.[62]

Standing Committee

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Main article: Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

The NPC Standing Committee is the permanent body of the NPC, elected by the legislature to meet regularly while it is not in session.[63] It consists of a chairman, vice chairpersons, a secretary-general, as well as regular members.[64] NPCSC membership is often full-time and carries a salary, and members are not allowed to simultaneously hold positions in executive, judicial, prosecutorial or supervisory posts.[44][non-primary source needed]

As the NPC only meets annually, the NPCSC effectively functions as the national legislature of China for most of the year.[61] It is granted with nearly all the lawmaking powers as the NPC itself, though it lacks the powers to amend the constitution and to appoint or remove national-level personnel.[63] The NPCSC passes the vast majority of China's laws, and has the powers to conduct oversight over governmental bodies, appoint or remove top-level personnel that are not in the national-level, ratifies treaties, grant special amnesties, and confer state honors.[61]

Administrative bodies

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A number of administrative bodies have also been established under the Standing Committee to provide support for the day-to-day operation of the NPC. These include:[65]

Special Committees

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Main article: Special Committee of the National People's Congress
 
National People's Congress Office Building

In addition to the Standing Committee, ten special committees have been established under the NPC to study issues related to specific fields. They include full time staff, who meet regularly to draft and discuss legislative work and policy proposals and the deputies assigned to the committees. A large portion of legislative work in China are effectively delegated to these committees in between the bimonthly plenary sessions of the NPCSC.[16] There are currently 10 special committees, which are:[66]

These are organized in like manner as the Standing Committee.

Procedures

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The legislative process of the NPCSC works according to a five-year work plan drafted by the Legislative Affairs Commission.[67] Within the work plan, a specific piece of legislative is drafted by a group of legislators or administrative agencies within the State Council, these proposals are collected into a yearly agenda which outlines the work of the NPC in a particular year.[35][unreliable source] This is followed by consultation by experts and approving in principle by the CCP. Afterwards, the legislation undergoes three readings and public consultation. The final approval is done in a plenary session in which by convention the vote is near unanimous.[35][unreliable source]

The NPC had never rejected a government bill until 1986, during the Bankruptcy Law proceedings, wherein a revised bill was passed in the same session. An outright rejection without a revised version being passed occurred in 2000 when a Highway Law was rejected, the first occurrence in sixty years of history.[68] Moreover, in 2015, the NPC refused to pass a package of bills proposed by the State Council, insisting that each bill require a separate vote and revision process.[69] The time for legislation can be as short as six months, or as long as 15 years for controversial legislation such as the Anti-Monopoly Law.[35][unreliable source]

Proceedings

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The NPC meets for about two weeks each year at the same time as the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, usually in the Spring. The combined sessions have been known as the Two Sessions (Lianghui).[70] Between these sessions, NPC's power are exercised by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.[63]

During the Two Sessions, the NPC and the CPPCC hear and discuss reports from the premier of the State Council, the president of the Supreme People's Court, and the procurator-general.[36]: 61–62 

See also

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Further reading

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  • Truex, Rory (2016). Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107172432.
  • Mackerras, Colin; McMillen, Donald; Watson, Andrew (2001). Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415250672.
  • Lin, Feng; Cheng, Joseph Y. S. (2011). Whither China's Democracy: Democratization in China Since the Tiananmen Incident. City University of Hong Kong Press. ISBN 978-9629371814.

Notes

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  1. ^ See references: [5][6][7][8][9]

References

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  18. ^ Gandhi, Jennifer; Noble, Ben; Svolik, Milan (1 August 2020). "Legislatures and Legislative Politics Without Democracy". Comparative Political Studies. 53 (9): 1359–1379. doi:10.1177/0010414020919930. ISSN 0010-4140. S2CID 218957454.
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