Kudos to revision of law

It is very hard to justify and swallow the de facto inequality between urban and rural residents in the election of deputies to the People's Congresses.

Despite all the rhetoric about the wisdom of the quota allocation in the 1979 Law on Election of Deputies to National and Local People's Congresses, we have never heard any convincing explanation of why each rural deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) must correspond to a population base four, five, or even eight times greater than what his or her urban counterpart represents.

Although a rural deputy to the National People's Congress theoretically represents a population seven times greater than the representation of an urban counterpart, their votes carry equal weight in the vote count at the national legislature.