22-2 Number of Deputies to All the Previous Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conferences
									(person)
Item	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth	Ninth
	Congress	Congress	Congress	Congress	Congress	Congress	Congress	Congress	Congress
	(1954)	(1959)	(1964)	(1975)	(1978)	(1983)	(1988)	(1993)	(1998)
Total Number of	198	729	1071	1199	1988	2039	2083	2093	2196
Deputies
Of Which
Deputies from the		40	60	61	76	76	90	91	92
Communist Party of
China
As Percentage to Total		5.5	5.6	5.1	3.8	3.7	4.3	4.3	4.2
Of Which
Deputies from	19	61	78	81	143	185	225	241	258
National Minorities
As Percentage to Total	9.6	8.4	7.3	6.8	7.2	9.1	10.8	11.5	11.7