China Deputies of National People's Congress

Deputies of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China

Current deputies of the National People's Congress (NPC), the national legislature and highest organ of state power of the People's Republic of China. Its roughly 3,000 deputies are elected for five-year terms by the people's congresses of the provincial-level divisions and by the armed forces, with separate delegations for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and hold the country's legislative power, including enacting laws and approving the budget.

This dataset records each sitting deputy with their name and delegation, plus gender and ethnicity for female and ethnic-minority deputies (the only ones the source annotates).

Data overview 

Entities:
Total5,662
Searchable2,816
Targets2,815
Entity types:
People2,815
Positions1
Countries:
China2,816
Publisher:National People's Congress of China (全国人民代表大会) (NPC) · China

The National People's Congress is the national legislature of the People's Republic of China.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.npc.gov.cn
Source data:www.npc.gov.cn · HTML
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-09-10 14:54:15 · v. 20260910145415-ikt · change statistics...
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities2.3 MB
names.txtTarget names text file31.95 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.53 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.54 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV533.57 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
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Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Guan Zhi'ouPersonChina
Guo JingjingPersonChina
Wang ShuxinPersonChina
Zhu HuarongPersonChina
Wang WeidongPersonChina
Ran HuiPersonChina
Zhang JingjingPersonChina
Li XingkuiPersonChina
Shi HaofeiPersonChina
Chen GuoqiangPersonChina
Mao XianglinPersonChina
Rong RongPersonChina
Wang HaixiaPersonChina
Wang ZhijiePersonChina
Fu Zi TangPersonChina
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