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900 million Chinese to vote in grassroots elections for lawmakers

​More than 900 million Chinese voters are expected to directly elect more than 2.5 million lawmakers in county or township-level elections set to begin this year, top legislator Zhang Dejiang said on Wednesday.

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China strengthens powers of township people's congresses

A dangerous trail connecting 10,000 villagers in northwest China's Gansu Province to the outside world was replaced by an 18-kilometer gravel road earlier this year.