FCCC Talk: Deconstructing the 2022 NPC by Changhao Wei

Just before the curtain rises for the National People’s Congress, Changhao Wei will introduce the basics of the annual sessions, discuss the NPC’s legislative process and its role in Chinese lawmaking, and share some thoughts on several NPC-related trends that have emerged in the Xi Jinping era. He will also provide a brief overview of how seats in the next NPC will be allocated among the various provinces and demographic groups.

About our speaker: Changhao Wei is a Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center of Yale Law School, where he focuses on China’s legislative process and constitutional enforcement mechanisms. He is also the founder, manager, and editor of NPC Observer, a website that covers China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.