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Friday saw people cast their ballots at 13,448 polling stations across Beijing to elect 4,898 new deputies to the people's congresses at the district level and 11,137 deputies to the township-level people's congresses, the Xinhua report said. Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a rare outing, cast his ballot at a polling station here to elect deputies to a local people’s congress as the ruling Communist Party in recent months highlighted its own brand of democracy, saying no country held a “patent” for a democratic political system. Xi, 68, cast his vote at a polling station in Huairentang, Zhongnanhai electoral district...
