Chongqing Municipal People's Congress

The Chongqing Municipal People's Congress (CMPC) is the local people's congress of Chongqing Municipality. The Congress is elected for a term of five years. Chongqing Municipal People's Congress meetings are held at least once a year in the Great Hall of the People. After a proposal by more than one-fifth of the deputies, a meeting of the people's congress at the corresponding level may be convened temporarily.

Chongqing Municipal People's Congress 重庆市人民代表大会 Chóngqìng Shì Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì
5th Chongqing Municipal People's Congress
Type
Type	Province-level people's congress
Leadership
Director	Zhang Xuan, CPC since January 2013[1]
Deputy Directors	Liu Xuepu, Zhou Xun, Du Liming, Shen Jinqiang, Zhang Dingyu, Xia Zuxiang, Wang Yue[2], CPC
Secretary-general	Long Hua, CPC
Seats	860
Elections
Chongqing Municipal People's Congress voting system	Plurality-at-large voting & Two-round system
Meeting place
Great Hall of the People
Website
cqrd.gov.cn

Chongqing Municipality People's Congress
Simplified Chinese	重庆市人民代表大会
Traditional Chinese	重慶市人民代表大會
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chóngqìng Shì Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì

Powers and duties

1. Ensure the compliance and implementation of the Constitution, laws, administrative regulations, and the resolutions of the higher people's congress and its standing committee, and ensure the implementation of the national plan and national budget
2. Review and approve the national economic and social development plans, budgets and report on their implementation
3. Discuss and decide on major issues related to politics, economy, education, science, culture, health, environment and resource protection, civil affairs, ethnicity, etc...
4. Elect of the members of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing People's Congress
5. Election of governor, deputy governor, chairman and vice chairman of autonomous region, mayor, deputy mayor, governor, deputy governor, county governor, deputy governor, district governor, deputy governor
6. Election of the president of the people's court and the Chief Procurator of the People's Procuratorate at the same level; the elected Chief Procurator of the People's Procuratorate must be reported to the Chief Procurator of the People's Procuratorate at a higher level for approval by the Standing Committee of the Chongqing People's Congress
7. Election of deputies to the people's congress at a higher level
8. Listen to and review the work reports of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing People's Congress
9. Hear and review the work reports of the people's government, people's courts, and people's procuratorates
10. Change or revoke inappropriate resolutions of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing People's Congress
11. Revoke inappropriate decisions and orders of the people's government at the same level
12. Protect the socialist property owned by the whole people and collectively owned by the working people, protect the legal private property of citizens, maintain social order, and protect citizens' personal rights, democratic rights and other rights
13. Protect the legitimate rights and interests of various economic organizations
14. Protect the rights of ethnic minorities
15. Guarantee the rights of equality between men and women, equal pay for equal work and freedom of marriage granted to women by the Constitution and laws^[3]

Directors

1. Wang Yunlong (王云龙): 1997－2002
2. Huang Zhendong (黄镇东): 2003－2007
3. Chen Guangguo (陈光国): 2008－2012
4. Zhang Xuan (张轩): 2013－present

See also

• Politics of Chongqing

References

1. "张国清接替张轩任重庆市委副书记 马正其不再担任常委(图|简历)_中国经济网——国家经济门户". district.ce.cn. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
2. "代表资料库 - 重庆人大网". cqrd.gov.cn. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
3. "全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于修改《中华人民共和国地方各级人民代表大会和地方各级人民政府组织法》的决定（主席令第三十号）". www.gov.cn. Retrieved 2020-11-27. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

• Official website