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Main Chinese governing body, 1959 to 1964
2nd National People's Congress
第二?全?人民代表大?
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Type
| Highest organ of state power
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Election
| National elections
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Chairman
| Zhu De
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Vice Chairmen
| Lin Boqu
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Li Jishen
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Luo Ronghuan
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Shen Junru
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Guo Moruo
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Huang Yanpei
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Peng Zhen
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Li Weihan
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Chen Shutong
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Tenzin Gyatso
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Saifuddin Azizi
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Cheng Qian
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Choekyi Gyaltsen
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He Xiangning
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Liu Bocheng
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Lin Feng
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Secretary-General
| Peng Zhen
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Standing Committee
| 80 (
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Total
| 1,235 members
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The
2nd National People's Congress
(
NPC
) was in session from 1959 to 1964.
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It held four sessions in this period.
Background
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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
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The first session
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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.
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The Congress elected the state leaders:
The third session of the 2nd NPC in 1962.
The fourth session of the 2nd NPC in 1966.
References
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