'More women should be elected NPC deputies'

To improve women's participation in politics, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference national committee urged that more women be elected as national legislators in 2013 during the next election of the National People's Congress (NPC).

Zhang Liming, an official at the All China Women's Federation, said on Tuesday that the proportion of female NPC deputies has lingered at about 21 percent during the past three decades.

She cited statistics from the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organization of parliaments, which showed that Chinese women's political presentation ranked 55th in the world by the end of 2010, dropping from 12th in 1994.

"All China Women's Federation proposes that?the election law should be amended to ensure giving gender parity to candidate lists and allocate more winnable seats to women and increase women deputies' proportion in the NPC," said Zhang.