The Second Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is to open in Beijing on Monday.

The First Session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was held in Beijing during Sept. 21-30, 1949.

Background and numbers about the annual "two sessions"

The difference between the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Brief History of the Communist Party of China

The NPC Standing Committee is the permanent body of the NPC.

Differences between China, western political systems.

The legislative powers of the National People's Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee are defined by the Constitution of China.

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is the central organ for developing multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

There is a substantial difference between motions submitted to a session of the National People's Congress (NPC) and proposals to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

The supervision power of the National People's Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee is to impose restrictions on other national organs of state power and ensure that the government should be run in accordance with the will of the people.

The People's Congress system is the fundamental political system of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the organizational form of state power of the people's democratic dictatorship in China, and the system of government of the country.