Grassroots democracy

Changes in voting for people's congress deputies at county and township levels will balance urban and rural representation

The new round of local people's congress elections at the county and township level will begin on July 1.

It will be the first time that both rural and urban areas have the same ratio of deputies to the represented population since the amendment of Election Law in March 2010. Previously the law stipulated that each rural deputy represented a population four times that of an urban deputy.