Legislature Lost 25 Members to Graft since Last Year's Meeting

(Beijing) – Twenty-five people who were members of China's top legislature last year will not be attending the annual meeting this year because they have been kicked out for graft or are under investigation.

Nearly 3,000 members of the National People's Congress (NPC) will meet in the capital on March 5 for a full, annual meeting. The agenda, as usual, includes deliberating over a report the government writes on its work over the past year and studying a plan for economic and social development from 2016 to 2020.