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March 3, 2023 

China is gearing for its most important sessions of the year! 

2023 marks the first year for China to fully implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The first session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC is scheduled to start on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and conclude on March 11 in the afternoon, lasting seven and a half days.

What is this year's agenda? 

In the coming days, nearly 3,000 National People's Congress (NPC) deputies and around 2,000 members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will gather in Beijing to perform their duties, which include deliberating on various legislative items and reviewing a series of work reports to find common ground and converge the interests of the Chinese people.

The annual gatherings, known as the Two Sessions, offer observers a window into the ideas and practices of the whole-process people's democracy, which has become a buzzword in China's political arena over the past several years.

How does the election process happen?

· In China, deputies to county and township-level people's congresses are directly elected by voters, while deputies to congresses above the county level are elected by deputies at the next lower level

· Till last June, over 1 billion voters had cast their ballots on a one-person-one-vote basis in elections of over 2.6 million deputies to people's congresses at the township and county levels

· Deputies to the NPC are elected by people's congresses of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government

· The armed forces elect their own deputies

The Chinese president's nomination as a deputy to the 14th NPC was put to a vote at a provincial congress. President Xi was elected to the 14th NPC by unanimous vote at the first session of the 14th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress in January.

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(Source: China Report)