Woman represents Shanxi for 12th time
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January 31, 2013, Thursday
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SHEN Jilan, an 84-year-old villager in north China's Shanxi Province, was elected deputy to China's parliament for the 12th time yesterday.
She and 69 other delegates were chosen at the first session of the 12th Shanxi Provincial People's Congress.
Shen has a wealth of political experience from six decades. After holding her status as a national model worker from 1952 to 1996, she has now become the only person in China to be consecutively elected 12 times as a deputy to the NPC.
"I will try my very best to do practical things for the people," she said after the session, adding that what she cares about most is building China into a moderately prosperous society and helping more people get rich.
At the age of 25, Shen broke a millennia-old Chinese convention in the early 1950s by pushing for equal pay for women, although she found it hard to communicate her concerns to the country's leaders at the time.
"My heart just beat like a drum when I sat there," recalled Shen of her early experiences as an NPC deputy. "Imagine, I was just one of the only 147 female deputies in the then 1,200-member Congress.
"Everything was fresh to me."
Shen met Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1954, fulfilling the biggest dream for Chinese people at that time.
Over the years, Shen has put forward many proposals related to agriculture, water conservation and tree planting.
She and 69 other delegates were chosen at the first session of the 12th Shanxi Provincial People's Congress.
Shen has a wealth of political experience from six decades. After holding her status as a national model worker from 1952 to 1996, she has now become the only person in China to be consecutively elected 12 times as a deputy to the NPC.
"I will try my very best to do practical things for the people," she said after the session, adding that what she cares about most is building China into a moderately prosperous society and helping more people get rich.
At the age of 25, Shen broke a millennia-old Chinese convention in the early 1950s by pushing for equal pay for women, although she found it hard to communicate her concerns to the country's leaders at the time.
"My heart just beat like a drum when I sat there," recalled Shen of her early experiences as an NPC deputy. "Imagine, I was just one of the only 147 female deputies in the then 1,200-member Congress.
"Everything was fresh to me."
Shen met Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1954, fulfilling the biggest dream for Chinese people at that time.
Over the years, Shen has put forward many proposals related to agriculture, water conservation and tree planting.
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