CPPCC composition

The CPPCC has its National Committee and local committees.

The National Committee

The CPPCC National Committee is composed of representatives from the CPC, all democratic parties, personages without party affiliation, mass organizations, all ethnic groups, and sectors of society, compatriots from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan, returned overseas Chinese and specially invited public figures.

The National Committee of the CPPCC is elected for a term of five years. It has a Chairperson, Vice-Chairpersons and Secretary-general.

The First Session of the Eleventh CPPCC National Committee was inaugurated on March 3, 2008 in Beijing.

It has been 60 years since the First National Committee of the CPPCC. The Eleventh CPPCC National Committee is at present in office, with 2,237 members from 34 groups.
　　　　　　Chairman: Jia Qinglin
　　　　　　Vice-chairpersons: Wang Gang, Liao Hui, Du Qinglin, Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (Tibetan), Pagbalha Geleg Namgyae (Tibetan), Ma Man Kei, Bai Lichen (Hui), Chen Kuiyuan, Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit (Uygur), Li Zhaozhuo (Zhuang), Huang Mengfu, Tung Chee-hwa, Zhang Meiying (female), Zhang Rongming (female), Qian Yunlu, Sun Jiazheng, Li Jinhua, Zheng Wantong, Deng Pufang, Wan Gang, Lin Wenyi (female), Li Wuwei, Luo Fuhe, Chen Zongxing ,Wang Zhizhen(female) and Edmund Ho Hau Wah.
　　　　　　Secretary-general: Qian Yunlu (concurrently)

The CPPCC National Committee's Standing Committee is in charge of day-to-day affairs. The Standing Committee is composed of the Chairperson, Vice-chairpersons and Secretary-general of the National Committee and other members. Candidates for the Standing Committee are nominated from among the membership of the CPPCC National Committee by the parties, organizations, personages from ethnic groups and various sectors of society that participate in the CPPCC National Committee, and they are elected at a plenary session of the CPPCC National Committee. The Chairperson of the CPPCC National Committee takes charge of the work of the Standing Committee. The Vice-chairpersons and Secretary-general assist him/her in this work. The Chairperson, Vice-chairpersons and Secretary-general constitute the Chair's Council, which handles the important day-to-day work of the Standing Committee.

The Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee exercises the following functions and powers:
　　　　　　(1) To interpret the Charter of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and supervise its enforcement;
　　　　　　(2) To convene and preside over plenary sessions of the CPPCC National Committee; to call, before the convocation of the first plenary session of a new National Committee, a preparatory meeting attended by all committee members to elect a presidium to conduct the first plenary session;
　　　　　　(3) To organize efforts to accomplish the tasks set forth in the Charter of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference;
　　　　　　(4) To carry out decisions adopted at plenary sessions of the CPPCC National Committee;
　　　　　　(5) To examine and adopt important recommendations to be forwarded to the NPC and its Standing Committee or the State Council when the CPPCC National Committee is not in plenary session;
　　　　　　(6) To appoint or remove deputy secretaries-general of the CPPCC National Committee upon the proposal of the Secretary-general; and
　　　　　　(7) To decide on the establishment of any working body of the CPPCC National Committee or any change to such a body, and to appoint or remove its leading members.

To meet the needs of the work, the CPPCC National Committee has several special committees as well as other working bodies. The special committees operate under the direction of the Standing Committee and the Chair's Council, and organize CPPCC National Committee members to carry out regular activities. Each special committee consists of a chairperson, several vice-chairpersons and members.
　　　　　　The Eleventh CPPCC National Committee has nine special committees, as follows:
　　　　　　1. Committee for Handling Proposals
　　　　　　2. Committee for Economic Affairs
　　　　　　3. Committee of Population, Resources and Environment
　　　　　　4. Committee of Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports
　　　　　　5. Committee for Social and Legal Affairs
　　　　　　6. Committee for Ethnic and Religious Affairs
　　　　　　7. Committee for Liaison with Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese
　　　　　　8. Committee of Foreign Affairs
　　　　　　9. Committee for Learning and Cultural and Historical Data
　　　　　　The National Committee has a General Office that works under the direction of the Secretary-general and a number of deputy secretaries-general who assist the Secretary-general in his/her work.
　　　　　　The CPPCC National Committee has three national mass organizations — China Economic and Social Council, China Committee on Religion and Peace and China Institute of the Theory of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.