PEIPING AND SHANGHAI HOLD LOCAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS ELECTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180110-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 110
• Publication Date: May 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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PEIPINGEq~;GHAI HOLD LOCAL PEOYLE,S CONGRESS ELECTIONS
PEIPING ELECTORAL DISTRICTS -- Peiping, Jen-min JiL-pao, 24 Nov 53
During the preparatory activities for the city wide elections, 172
electoral districts were set up in the seven wards of the city.
PEIPING LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS __ Peiping, Kung-Jen Jih-pao, 29 Jan 54
Ninety-eight percent of the electorate
delegates to the local people's congress. participated in the election of the majority were from In all, 1,020 delegates were elected;
the Chinese Communist Party and the working class; more
than 30 percent were workers. Among delegates elected who received a vote of
98 percent and above were the following: Chou Jen (IQ 4-- Party secretary, and ward chief of the Tung ,u people's go ov
er),nTung uhou
Sul ( A ), deputy ward chief of Ch'un w u Chang T- h'ing,
, 'All-China Model Worker, chairman of the autoobilee estng
office of the) First Ministry of Machine Industry; p
Factory worker of the privately operated yu_ Kuan Chung_yueh
factory feng-ho Dye Factory; Kao Chao-wen ),
p SL ), chairman of the clerks union of the Jui-fu-hsiang Store.
SH'JiGHAI ELECTORAL DISTRICTS -- Peiping, Ten-min Jib-pap, 24 Nov 53
Thirty-three electoral districts have been established among more than
80,000 people who live in boats on various rivers in the city. Over 20,000
of the city's population belong to minority races who do not vote as a unit,
but with the rest of the population.
SHANGHAI LOCAL. ELECTION RESULTS -- Hong Kong, To Kung Pro, 25 Jan 54
Basic level elections in Shanghai have reached a peak; more than 3,800,000
are taking part in election activities. Elections have been held in all city
electoral districts, and results of basic level elections in the electoral
districts of outlying suburban areas are largely in. Up to the 16 January, out
of the total 672 electoral districts, 602 districts had announced the names of
3,329 candidates. More than 2 million voters in 412 electoral districts have
already voted and elected 671 delegates to the local people's congress.
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