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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1897)12/11/2003 1:52:55 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6370
 
China's declaration of independents

By Seattle Times news services


LI JUNDONG / AP
An elderly woman places her vote into a mobile ballot box held by an election staffer in Beijing yesterday.

BEIJING — Millions of people packed polling stations in Beijing yesterday to elect local representatives, in a show of democracy marked for the first time by the emergence of a handful of independent candidates.
One-party rule is the norm in China, which installs its top communist officials in equivalent government leadership posts. But upper-level leaders, including Premier Wen Jiabao, have extolled the virtues of democracy at the most local levels.

seattletimes.nwsource.com