Plan for the Consultative Election of Deputies of Taiwan Province to the Eleventh National People’s Congress
(Adopted at the 27th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People’s Congress on April 28, 2007)
In accordance with the Decision of the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress on the Number of Deputies to the Eleventh National People’s Congress and the Election of the Deputies, the plan for the consultative election of deputies to the Eleventh National People’s Congress is as follows:
1. For the time being, 13 deputies representing Taiwan Province shall be elected in Beijing through consultation from among representatives of Taiwan origin sent by Taiwan compatriots in the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government other than Taiwan and in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. In line with the relevant stipulations of the Electoral Law, the deputies shall be elected by secret ballot from among a larger number of candidates.
2. 122 representatives shall participate in the conference for election through consultation. The standing committees of the people’s congresses of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be responsible for making arrangements for the election of the representatives through consultation in their respective areas. The representatives from the Central State organs and from the PLA units stationed in Beijing attending the conference for consultative election shall be elected through consultation between the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and the relevant departments. The election shall be completed by the end of December of 2007.
3. The conference for consultative election shall be convened in Beijing in January, 2007 and shall last about one week.
4. The consultative election shall be conducted in a democratic manner and in deliberating on the candidates, consideration should be given to representation of people in all fields of endeavor and proper attention shall be paid to the election of candidates from among the youth and middle-aged, women and minority nationalities.
5. The conference for consultative election will be called by Yang Guoqing, member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
Appendix:
Plan for the Allocation of the Number of Representatives Who Will Attend the Conference for the Consultative Election of Deputies of Taiwan Province to the Eleventh National People’s Congress
Region or Number of compatriots Number of representatives
institution from Taiwan Province to take part in the
(Statistics of Year 2006) consultative conference
Beijing Municipality 1450 6
Tianjin Municipality 848 4
Hebei Province 736 3
Shanxi Province 124 1
Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region 205 1
Liaoning Province 1498 6
Jilin Province 249 2
Heilongjiang Province 405 2
Shanghai Municipality 1651 6
Jiangsu Province 1460 6
Zhejiang Province 1923 6
Anhui Province 713 3
Fujian Province 14827 15
Jiangxi Province 1536 6
Shandong Province 512 2
Henan Province 527 3
Hubei Province 542 2
Hunan Province 598 3
Guangdong Province 3750 9
Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region 402 2
Hainan Province 3250 9
Chongqing Municipality 454 2
Sichuan Province 367 2
Guizhou Province 180 1
Yunnan Province 415 2
Tibet Autonomous Region 0 0
Shaanxi Province 303 2
Gansu Province 146 1
Qinghai Province 56 1
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 46 1
Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region 102 1
Institutions under the
Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China 4
Central Government institutions 6
General departments of the
People’s Liberation Army 2
Total 39275 122