Successive NPCs
Term	Opening	Number of Deputies	Standing Committee Chairman
First	Sept. 1954	1,226	Liu Shaoqi
Second	Apr. 1959	1,226	Zhu De
Third	Dec. 1964	3,040	Zhu De
Fourth	Jan. 1975	2,885	Zhu De
Fifth	Mar. 1978	3,497	Ye Jianying
Sixth	June 1983	2,978	Peng Zhen
Seventh	Mar. 1988	2,978	Wan Li
Eighth	Mar. 1993	2,977	Qiao Shi
Ninth	Mar. 1998	2,980	Li Peng
Tenth	Mar. 2003	2,985	Wu Bangguo