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D: CHINA AND HONG KONG
(i) Chinese organisational structure
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There are 2 major hierarchies which are concerned with Hong
Kong affairs: the Communist Party and the Government, including the
State Council and the National People's Congress.
The Party plays the leading role, overseeing the operations of the State Council the main governing body and National People's Congress and its Standing Committee.
Over 3,000 menhis
National People's Congress is China's parliamentary body but is quite unlike Westminster Parliament. Indirectly elected (by provincial-level congresses). (Meets far less regularly. Only one plenary session a year, lasting 2 weeks. Most recent plenary meeting has just come to an end. NPC's Standing Committee with
about 150 members meets for 2-4 days at monthly intervals to enact
laws and make ministerial and other appointments.
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Some memtus fro HIC (= Macao)
The NPC's Foreign Affairs Committee which is formally the
FAC's counterparts and whose Chairman you will probably be meeting
is one of several specialist committees charged with examining
relevant bills, etc.
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State Council and leading Ministers are elected by NPC.
Executive Committee of State Council approximates to Western
Cabinet.
But in practice, Standing Committee of the Party's Politburo,
assisted by the Party Secretariat headed by Zhao Ziyang, acts as an
inner cabinet. Various central party organisations, eg the Foreign
Affairs Group, supervises work of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The National Party Congress is elected for a five-year term and
normally meets only once during its term. The Party Central
Committee (175 full members) usually meets about once a year.