2nd National People's Congress
2nd National People's Congress 第二届全国人民代表大会 | |
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| 18 April 1959 – 21 December 1964 (5 years, 247 days) Overview | |
| Type | Highest organ of state power |
| Election | Indirect elections |
| Leadership | |
| Chairman | Zhu De |
| Vice Chairmen | Lin Boqu, Li Jishen, Luo Ronghuan, Shen Junru, Guo Moruo, Huang Yanpei, Peng Zhen, Li Weihan, Chen Shutong, Tenzin Gyatso, Saifuddin Azizi, Cheng Qian, Choekyi Gyaltsen, He Xiangning, Liu Bocheng, and Lin Feng |
| Secretary-General | Peng Zhen |
| Standing Committee | 80 (2nd) |
| Members | |
| Total | 1,235 members |
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| Traditional Chinese | 第二屆全國人民代表大會 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 第二届全国人民代表大会 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 第二屆全國人大 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 第二届全国人大 | ||||||
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The 2nd National People's Congress (NPC) was in session from 1959 to 1964.[1] It held four sessions in this period.
Background
[edit]Since the succeeding Congress was to be the first to be elected under the 1954 Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, in February 1959, finished all the preparatory work for selection of deputies, which were voted by representatives of the provincial legislatures and the city legislatures of the then two Direct-administered municipalities of China: Beijing and Shanghai. The elections were held in accordance with the 1953 Electoral Law.
Seat distribution
[edit]The first session
[edit]The first session was held in 18–28 April 1959. During the first session, Mao Zedong relinquished his role as chairman of the People's Republic to Liu Shaoqi.[2] The Congress elected the state leaders:
- Chairman of the People's Republic of China: Liu Shaoqi
- Vice Chairmen of the People's Republic of China: Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
- Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Zhu De
- Premier of the State Council: Zhou Enlai
- President of the Supreme People's Court: Xie Juezai
- Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Zhang Dingcheng
References
[edit]- ^ Harvard University Center for International Affairs; Center, Harvard University East Asian Research (1962). Communist China 1955-1959: Policy Documents with Analysis. Harvard University Press. p. 505. ISBN 978-0-674-14900-7.
- ^ Ang, Cheng Guan (1997-01-01). Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962. McFarland. pp. 102–110. ISBN 978-0-7864-0404-9.
Further reading
[edit]- Second Session of the Second National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (Documents). AMS Press; Foreign Languages Press. 1973 [1960]. ISBN 0-404-56907-2. LCCN 79-38053. OCLC 579866.
External links
[edit]- (in Chinese) Official website of the NPC