Twenty-six electoral units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the People’s Armed Police (PAP) Force recently elected 281 deputies to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC).
日前，解放军和武警部队26个选举单位先后召开军人代表大会，按照法定程序和要求，选举产生了281名第十四届全国人大代表。
The election work has been carried out since October 2022. In this general election, 358 candidates were nominated, 27.4% more compared to the actual deputies to be elected. Among them, 281 candidates were finally elected, including 93 grass-roots service members and professional technical officers, accounting for 33.1% and 3.5 percentage points higher than the previous term. There are 39 female deputies, accounting for 13.9% of the total and 2.3 percentage points higher than the previous term, and 17 ethnic minority deputies. And, there are 267 deputies with college degrees or above, accounting for 95% of the total, among which 140 deputies have graduate degree, accounting for 49.8%.
军队选举工作从去年10月陆续展开。这次换届选举，共提名代表候选人358名，超过应选代表27.4%。当选281人，其中基层一线和专业技术军官代表93名、占33.1%，比上届提高3.5个百分点；妇女代表39名、占13.9%，比上届提高2.3个百分点；少数民族代表17名；大学以上学历代表267名、占95%，其中研究生学历代表140名、占49.8%。
All the military deputies are members of the Communist Party of China (CPC), with 161 having received second-class merit citations or higher-level awards.
代表全部是中共党员，有161人获得过二等功以上功勋荣誉表彰。
