Fewer officials at legislature session
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February 28, 2013, Thursday
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More migrant workers, women and young people have been elected to the 12th National People's Congress, China's national legislature, while there are fewer government and Party officials.
The 11th NPC Standing Committee confirmed the credentials of all 2,987 elected deputies yesterday.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, and the other six members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee's Political Bureau - Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli - were elected as NPC deputies.
They join 401 workers and farmers, who were also elected deputies.
The younger generation is well represented.
Among them is Chen Ruolin, at 20 the youngest deputy, who was born in December 1992. She won a diving gold medal at the London Olympics last year.
Also born in 1992, Tie Feiyan, a road toll collector in southwest China's Yunnan Province, was dubbed "the most beautiful girl born after 1990" by admirers online as she had once rescued people from drowning and had adopted an abandoned infant.
They are among 699 female deputies.
Meanwhile, 1,042 deputies are government officials and leading Party cadres.
All the deputies were elected from 35 election units representing 34 Chinese regions and the People's Liberation Army in December and January.
The biggest difference compared to previous elections was that deputies were elected this year using the same population ratio for both rural and urban areas, said Wang Wanbin, deputy secretary general of the NPC Standing Committee.
Each rural NPC deputy used to represent a population eight times that of an urban deputy between the 1950s and the 1990s, when the country had a dominant rural population.
Among the elected deputies, there are 36 from Hong Kong and 12 from Macau.
Thirteen deputies have been elected to represent Taiwan.
The 11th NPC Standing Committee's last bi-monthly session ended yesterday.
The first annual session of the 12th NPC is due to start next Tuesday.
The session adopted in principle a report on the work of the NPC Standing Committee, which will be submitted to the upcoming session for deliberation, said Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
The 11th NPC Standing Committee confirmed the credentials of all 2,987 elected deputies yesterday.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, and the other six members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee's Political Bureau - Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli - were elected as NPC deputies.
They join 401 workers and farmers, who were also elected deputies.
The younger generation is well represented.
Among them is Chen Ruolin, at 20 the youngest deputy, who was born in December 1992. She won a diving gold medal at the London Olympics last year.
Also born in 1992, Tie Feiyan, a road toll collector in southwest China's Yunnan Province, was dubbed "the most beautiful girl born after 1990" by admirers online as she had once rescued people from drowning and had adopted an abandoned infant.
They are among 699 female deputies.
Meanwhile, 1,042 deputies are government officials and leading Party cadres.
All the deputies were elected from 35 election units representing 34 Chinese regions and the People's Liberation Army in December and January.
The biggest difference compared to previous elections was that deputies were elected this year using the same population ratio for both rural and urban areas, said Wang Wanbin, deputy secretary general of the NPC Standing Committee.
Each rural NPC deputy used to represent a population eight times that of an urban deputy between the 1950s and the 1990s, when the country had a dominant rural population.
Among the elected deputies, there are 36 from Hong Kong and 12 from Macau.
Thirteen deputies have been elected to represent Taiwan.
The 11th NPC Standing Committee's last bi-monthly session ended yesterday.
The first annual session of the 12th NPC is due to start next Tuesday.
The session adopted in principle a report on the work of the NPC Standing Committee, which will be submitted to the upcoming session for deliberation, said Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
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