As the curtain rises on the annual session of the National People's Congress of China, new deputies, including provincial governors, scholars, judges, scientists and farmers, are preparing to make their debuts. [Special coverage]
Chen Qiufa, governor of Northeast China's Liaoning province, Yin Li, governor of Southwest China's Sichuan province and Sun Zhigang, governor of Southwest China's Guizhou province, are among the new deputies to the 12th National People's Congress. They were elected by the standing committees of their local people's congress.
Chen used to be chairman of the Hunan provincial committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference before being appointed Liaoning governor last year.
Yin, former deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, is now governor of Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Like Yin, Guizhou governor Sun also spent a period of his career in the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Besides the provincial governors, Hu Heping, deputy secretary of the Party committee in Northwest China's Shaanxi province and Mao Weiming, executive vice-governor of East China's Jiangxi province, are also among the new deputies.
Hu used to be Party chief of Tsinghua University, while Mao was former deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Members from local legal and judicial institutions will also make their debuts as deputies.
Li Ning is procurator-general of the People's Procuratorate in Southwest China's Yunnan province, while Gong Jiali is president of Higher People's Court of Guangdong province.
New deputies to the National People's Congress also include experts and grassroots representatives.
Luo Jun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Sun Yat-sen University in South China's Guangdong province, is the leader of the China-led Tianqin Project, which centers on research of key technologies in space gravitational wave detection.
Yu Huihuai, a grain producer in Northeast China's Liaoning province, and Liu Tianxu, a village official in Northwest China's Gansu province, both help local villagers live better lives by developing the local agricultural industry.
Twenty-nine deputies' positions at the National People's Congress were terminated and four others died between last year's NPC's session and now.
The fourth session of the 12th National People's Congress will start at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Saturday.
