autonomous region and the receipt of approval.
Article 101 Local people's congresses shall, at their respective levels, elect and have the power to remove
from office governors and deputy governors, mayors and deputy mayors, county heads and deputy heads,
municipal district heads and deputy heads, township heads and deputy heads, and town heads and deputy
heads.
Local people's congresses at and above the county level shall elect, and have the power to remove from
office, chairpersons of the commissions of supervision, presidents of the people's courts and chief
procurators of the people's procuratorates at their respective levels. The election or removal of chief
procurator of the people's procuratorate must be reported to the chief procurator of the people's
procuratorate at the next level up for submission to the standing committee of the people's congress at that
level for approval.
Article 102 Deputies to the people's congresses of provinces, cities directly under central government
jurisdiction and cities divided into districts shall be subject to oversight by the organizations that elected
them; deputies to the people's congresses of counties, cities not divided into districts, municipal districts,
townships, ethnic townships and towns shall be subject to oversight by their constituencies.
The organizations and constituencies that elect deputies to local people's congresses at all levels shall have
the power to remove them from office in accordance with procedures prescribed by law.
Article 103 The standing committees of local people's congresses at and above the county level shall be
composed of a chairperson, vice chairpersons and members; they shall be responsible to the people's
congresses at their respective levels and shall report to them on their work.
Local people's congresses at and above the county level shall elect, and have the power to remove from
office, members of their standing committees.
Members of the standing committee of a local people's congress at or above the county level shall not hold
office in an administrative, supervisory, adjudicatory or procuratorial organ of the state.
Article 104 The standing committees of local people's congresses at and above the county level shall discuss
and decide on major issues in all areas of work in their administrative areas; oversee the work of the people's
government, the commission of supervision, the people's court and the people's procuratorate at their
respective levels; revoke inappropriate decisions and orders made by the people's government at the same
level; revoke inappropriate resolutions adopted by the people's congress at the next level down; decide on
the appointment or removal of employees of state organs according to the authority invested in them as
prescribed by law; and, when people's congresses at their level are out of session, remove from office and
elect to fill vacancies individual deputies to the people's congress at the next level up.
Article 105 Local people's governments at all levels are the executive organs of the local state organs of
power at their respective levels; they are the local state administrative organs at their respective levels.
Local people's governments at all levels shall practice a governor, mayor, county head, municipal district
head, township head or town head responsibility system.
Article 106 Local people's governments at all levels shall have the same term of office as that of the people's
congresses at their respective levels.
Article 107 Local people's governments at and above the county level shall, according to the authority
invested in them as prescribed by law, manage administrative work related to the economy, education,
science, culture, public health, sports, urban and rural development, finance, civil affairs, public security,
ethnic affairs, judicial administration, family planning, etc., within their administrative areas; and shall issue
decisions and orders, appoint or remove, train, evaluate, and award or punish administrative employees.
The people's governments of townships, ethnic townships and towns shall implement the resolutions of the
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