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What is the legislative process of the National People's Congress?

What is the legislative process of the NPC Standing Committee?

What role does the People's Congress system play in the life of the people of China?

What is the nature of the National People's Congress?

What are the functions and powers of the National People's Congress?

How does the NPC relate to other state organs?

What are the powers and functions of the NPC Standing Committee?

What are the legitimate sphere of influence of the NPC and its Standing Committee?

What are the NPC procedures for the proposal and deliberation of bills?

How are the NPC and its Standing Committee organized?

What are the supervisory mechanisms of the NPC and its Standing Committee?

What forms do NPC meetings take and who chairs them?

How often are NPC sessions held and who convenes them?

What happens at a plenary session of the NPC?

What happens at the delegation meetings?

What are the responsibilities of the NPC Presidium?

How is the NPC Presidium elected and who are its members?

How are delegation heads, deputy heads and convenors of groups of deputies elected and what are their responsibilities?

What sort of body is the NPC Standing Committee?

How long do members of the NPC Standing Committee serve?

Can members of the NPC Standing Committee also serve in state administrative, judicial or procuratorial bodies?

How are the delegations to the NPC made up and what are their rights and responsibilities?

How are NPC Special Committees constituted and what is their role?

How do local people's congresses operate and how do they relate to the NPC?

Who has the right to interpret the law?

How are deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) elected?

What qualifies a person to stand for the NPC deputy election?

Who elects the NPC deputies?

How are voters registered?

In what way are the candidates for the people's congress nominated?

Who presides over the election of deputies to the national and local people's congress?

Among deputies to the National People's Congress and local people's congresses, there should be an appropriate number of women and returned overseas Chinese, shouldn't there?

How do Chinese citizens who reside abroad participate in the election?

How do the electoral units of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) elect deputies to people's congress?

Whose approval is the PLA Electoral Committee subject to?

How is the quota of PLA deputies to the NPC determined and allocated?

Are NPC deputies subject to supervision by the electoral units which elected them? Does an electoral unit have the power to recall deputies it elects?

How is the number of deputies to local people's congresses, at various levels, defined?

When was the Electoral Law of the National People's Congress and the Local People's Congresses adopted and amended?


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