The 9th National People's Congress (simplified Chinese: 第九届全国人民代表大会; traditional Chinese: 第九屆全國人民代表大會; pinyin: Dìjiǔ Jiè Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiǎo Dàhuì) was in session from 1998 to 2003. It held five plenary sessions in this period. There were 2,979 deputies to this Congress.
Read more about 9th National People's Congress: Elected State Leaders
Famous quotes containing the words national, people and/or congress:
“It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front of his door than any other man can afford.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)