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the People's Republic of China The National People's Congress (simplified Chinese ????????; traditional Chinese ????????; pinyin Quánguó Rénmín Dàibiao Dàhuì; literally "Pan-National Congress of the People's Representatives"), abbreviated NPC (Chinese ??; pinyin Rén-Dà), is the highest state body and only legislative house in the People's Republic of China. Although the membership of the NPC is still largely determined by the Communist Party of China, since the early 1990s it has moved away from its previous role as a symbolic but powerless rubber-stamp legislature, and has become a forum for mediating policy differences between different parts of the Party and the government. For the NPC to formally defeat a proposal put before them is a rare, but not non-existent event, and the NPC has been quite active in being the forum in which legislation is debated before being put to a vote.[citation needed] The National People's Congress is held in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China. The NPC gathers each year along with the People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) whose members are from a broader background. NPC and CPPCC together are often called the Lianghui (Two Meetings), making important national level political decisions. The National People's Congress has been granted the following powers and functions by the constitution of the PRC [1]
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