Direct elections bring people to polls

Voters in 806 villages in Jiangsu province are casting their ballots

BEIJING - Besides routine farm work, residents in the 806 villages of Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, are busy electing their new leaders.

At the election site of Houchong village, Yongning town, many of the 200 Party members and villager representatives arrived on Tuesday with mud still on their shoes, fresh from their work on the farm.