23-2  Number of Deputies to All the Previous Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferences
						(person)
Congress	Year	Total	Deputies from	Ethnic	As Percentage to Total Deputies (%)
		Number of	the Communist	Minority	Deputies from	Ethnic
		Deputies	Party of China	Deputies	the Communist	Minority
					Party of China	Deputies
First Congress	1954	198		19		9.6
Second Congress	1959	729	40	61	5.5	8.4
Third Congress	1964	1071	60	78	5.6	7.3
Fourth Congress	1975	1199	61	81	5.1	6.8
Fifth Congress	1978	1988	76	143	3.8	7.2
Sixth Congress	1983	2039	76	185	3.7	9.1
Seventh Congress	1988	2083	90	225	4.3	10.8
Eighth Congress	1993	2093	91	241	4.3	11.5
Ninth Congress	1998	2196	92	258	4.2	11.7
Tenth Congress	2003	2238	99	103	4.4	4.6