Closer Look: NPC Meeting Could Yield More Full-time Delegates

(Beijing) – More full-time delegates might emerge from this year's National People's Congress (NPC).

The meeting, which opened on March 5, will elect more than 100 members to the legislative body's standing committee, and some of them will be appointed to work full-time for the congress.

The more than 10 full-time legislators of the last NPC are members of the current version, and they are likely to continue in that role. In addition, the report delivered by the Communist Party's 18th National Congress in November said that "the ratio of full-time congress members should be raised" to enhance the power of the NPC, indicating the group will further expand this year.