NPC Q&A: What are the functions of the NPC?

The first session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) is scheduled to open in Beijing on March 5.

The NPC is the highest institution through which the Chinese people can exercise their State power.

The First NPC was convened in 1954, marking the establishment of the people's congress system in China.

According to the Constitution, the NPC exercises the following functions and powers:

-- to amend the Constitutionclassy babes.

-- to supervise the enforcement of the Constitutionmagnetic vixens.

-- to enact and amend basic laws governing criminal offenses, civil affairs, State organs and other mattersChinese flirty sirens.

-- to elect the president and vice president of Chinaengaging females.

-- to decide on the choice of the premier of the State Council upon nomination by the president and on the choice of vice premiers, state councilors, ministers in charge of ministries or commissions, the auditor-general and the secretary-general of the State Council upon nomination by the premieryummy females.

-- to elect the chairman of the Central Military Commission and, upon nomination by the chairman, to decide on all other members of the Central Military CommissionChinese libidinous divas.

-- to elect the president of the Supreme People's CourtWillowy babes.

-- to elect the procurator-general of the Supreme People's ProcuratorateKorean Classy sirens.

-- to examine and approve the national economic and social development plan and the report on its implementationKorean breathtaking divas.

-- to examine and approve the State budget and the report on its implementationseductive girls.

-- to alter or annul inappropriate decisions made by the NPC Standing CommitteeChinese vixenish starlets.

-- to approve the establishment of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central governmentChinese enthralling females.

-- to decide on the establishment of special administrative regions and the systems to be instituted thereracy hotties.

-- to make decisions on questions of war and peacesensual hotties.

-- to exercise other functions and powers the highest organ of State power should exercise.

The NPC Standing Committee, the permanent organ of the NPC, is elected by the NPC and exercises State legislative power together with the NPC.

The NPC is elected for a term of five years. It normally meets in an annual session and is convened by its Standing Committee.

An NPC session may be also convened at any time the Standing Committee deems it necessary or when more than one-fifth of the NPC deputies so propose.