Top Legislature Starts Reading Draft Amendment to Electoral Law

China's top legislature started Monday to discuss granting equal representation in people's congresses to rural and urban people.

A draft amendment to the Electoral Law, tabled at the ongoing annual full session of the National People's Congress for third reading, aims to balance elections of lawmakers.

It requires "both rural and urban areas adopt the same ratio of deputies to the represented population in elections of people's congress deputies."

Lawmakers convened Monday morning their second plenary meeting of the 10-day session in the Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing.

(China.Org)