Order Promulgating the Decision Allowing People’s Congresses of Provinces and Directly Administered Municipalities to Meet Once Each Year (November 14, 1957) The Standing Committee of the First National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China adopted, at its eighty-fourth meeting on November 14, 1957, a decision permitting the people’s congresses of provinces and directly administered municipalities to convene once annually. This decision is hereby promulgated. Mao Zedong, President of the People’s Republic of China November 14, 1957 Printed in accordance with the edition published in the People’s Daily on November 15, 1957.