Editing Elections in China (section)

===Indirect elections===
People's Congresses of [[provinces of China|provinces]] ({{lang|zh|省}}), [[Direct-administered municipalities of China|directly administered municipalities]] ({{lang|zh|直辖市}}), and cities divided into districts ({{lang|zh|[[:zh:设区的市|设区的市]]}}) are [[indirect election|indirectly elected]] by the People's Congress of the level immediately below.<ref name="a97"/>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2023}} Governors, mayors, and heads of counties, districts, townships and towns are elected by the respective local People's Congresses.<ref name="a101">Article 101 of the [[Constitution of China]]</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2023}} Presidents of people's courts and the regional prosecutors general of people's procuratorates are elected by the respective local People's Congresses above the county level.<ref name="a101" />{{Primary source inline|date=June 2023}}

====Local People's Governments====
The Local People's Congress at each administrative level—other than the village level in rural areas, which hold direct elections—elects candidates for executive positions at that level of government and the Chairmen/Chairwomen of their regional People's Congress Standing Committees.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

====National People's Congress====
The [[National People's Congress]] (NPC) has 2,977 members, elected for five year terms. Deputies are elected (over a three-month period) by the people's congresses of the provinces of China, [[Autonomous regions of China|autonomous regions]], [[Direct-administered municipalities of China|municipalities]] directly under the Central Government, as well as by electoral college in the [[Special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] of [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]], and by the armed forces which function as [[at-large]] [[electoral district]]s.<ref name="NPCelections">{{cite web |title=Allocation of the Number of Deputies |url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/27743.htm |access-date=6 May 2021 |website=[[China Internet Information Center]] |publisher= |archive-date=12 August 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020812174344/http://www.china.org.cn/english/27743.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Non-primary source needed|date=November 2024}} Generally, seats are [[apportionment (politics)|apportioned]] to each electoral district in proportion to their population, though the system for apportioning seats for Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and the [[People's Liberation Army]] differ.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ji |first1=Bian |date=6 March 2011 |title=China's National People's Congress System: A Brief Introduction |url=https://www.chinausfocus.com/society-culture/chinas-national-peoples-congress-system-a-brief-introduction |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205759/https://www.chinausfocus.com/society-culture/chinas-national-peoples-congress-system-a-brief-introduction |archive-date=6 May 2021 |access-date=6 May 2021 |website=China US Focus |publisher=[[China-United States Exchange Foundation]]}}</ref> No electoral district may be apportioned fewer than 15 seats in the NPC.<ref name="NPCelections"/>{{Non-primary source needed|date=November 2024}}

The NPC elects and appoints the following personnel:{{sfn|Lin|2011|pp=68–69}}

* [[President of China|President of the People's Republic of China]]
* [[Vice President of China|Vice President of the People's Republic of China]]
* [[Chairman of the Central Military Commission (China)|Chairperson of the Central Military Commission]] (PRC)
* Director of the [[National Supervisory Commission]]
* [[President of the Supreme People's Court]]
* [[Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate]]

The NPC also appoints the [[Premier of China|premier of the State Council]] based on the president's nomination, other members of the State Council based on the premier's nomination, and other members of the Central Military Commission based on the CMC chair's nomination.{{sfn|Lin|2011|pp=68–69}}