“ The standing committee of a people's congress or the election committee at the same level shall determine the distribution of the number of deputies of local people's congresses according to the population of lower administrative divisions or electoral districts in its jurisdiction based on the principle that each deputy represents the same number of urban and rural residents and ensuring that each region, ethic group, and body of people has an appropriate number of deputies. ”

“ If a deputy to a local people's congress at any level is transferred or moves out of his or her administrative region during his or her term of office, he or she shall automatically be disqualified as a deputy and a by-election shall be held to fill the vacancy. ”

“ Where the total population of an ethnic minority in such an area exceeds 30 percent of the total local population, the number of people represented by each deputy of that ethnic minority shall be equal to the number of people represented by each of the other deputies to the local people's congress. ”