National People's Congress

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The National People's Congress (NPC) is the supreme state organ of power of the People's Republic of China that heads the country's people's congress system. It is vested with unified state power and carries out its duties under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as the party is constitutionally enshrined as having the "leading role" in China's communist state system. The NPC uses its status in the state system to establish a division of labour between itself and inferior state organs. The relationship between the NPC and the inferior organs make up the unified state apparatus. As the supreme organ of state power, the NPC has the power to amend China's communist state constitution, enact legislation, and oversee the operations of the state's inferior organs. It elects and can remove the top officials of the inferior state organs: the State Council, the state president, the Supreme People's Court (SPC), the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the National Supervisory Commission...

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