Voters at specified local levels
Directly elect specified county, district, township, ethnic-township, and town congresses.
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Who selects whom in China?
Direct local elections feed an indirect chain to the National People's Congress.
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Indirect national people's-congress selection system
Official NPC sources distinguish directly elected specified lower-level people's congresses from higher-level congresses elected by the congress below; 35 electoral units elect the National People's Congress, which selects or decides specified state leadership roles.
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Institutions represented on this map.
Each institution below has an attached source. Being listed does not imply an unshown formal relationship.
Lower-level people's congresses
Directly elected congresses participate in the upward indirect-election chain.
National People's Congress
Deputies are elected from 35 official electoral units; the NPC exercises national legislative power.
Specified state leadership
Includes national offices that Article 62 says the NPC elects or decides upon.
Evidence and limits
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The map describes formal national relationships only. It does not measure democratic quality, legitimacy, actual compliance, or informal influence.
Official or constitutional source
Organization of the National People's Congress
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
- 35 electoral units
- NPC structure
Electoral Law of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
- direct lower-level election
- indirect higher-level election
Constitution of the People's Republic of China
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
- local election levels
- NPC powers
- state leadership selection