Successive NPCs
Term	Opening	Deputies	Standing Committee Chairman
First	Sep. 1954	1,226	Liu Shaoqi
Second	Apr. 1959	1,226	Zhu De
Third	Dec. 1964	3,040	Zhu De
Fourth	Jan. 1975	2,885	Zhu De
Fifth	Mar. 1978	3,497	Ye Jianying
Sixth	Jun. 1983	2,978	Peng Zhen
Seventh	Mar. 1988	2,970	Wan Li
Eighth	Mar. 1993	2,898	Qiao Shi
Ninth	Mar. 1998	2,978	Li Peng
10th	Mar. 2003	2,985	Wu Bangguo