The NPC Standing Committee will consider three documents relating to the 14th NPC elections.
Two concern the allocation of seats in the 14th NPC: one would allocate all 3,000 seats among
the 35 electoral units (i.e., the 31 mainland provinces, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and the
Chinese military), and the other would more specifically allocate the 360 seats reserved for
ethnicity minorities among the 55 officially recognized minority groups and relevant electoral
units. The third document lays down rules for selecting the delegation purportedly representing
Taiwan in the 14th NPC. The document is likely to create an ad hoc “consultative election
meeting” consisting of representatives of “compatriots of Taiwanese ancestry” who hail from
all mainland provinces, central Party and state organs, and the military. The meeting is expected to convene next January to select the 13 delegates who will make up the Taiwanese delegation.
The NPCSC is expected to approve all three documents at the upcoming session.
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