Grassroots polls reach completion

Elections in all of China's counties and townships have been completed, with fewer officials being elected and an unprecedented equal representation of urbanites and farmers.

Since early 2011, nearly 600,000 deputies have been elected to 2,878 county-level legislative bodies, and 1.9 million deputies have been elected to 33,281 township legislatures, according to a statement issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Tuesday.

More than 981 million people registered to vote in the county-level elections, while 723 million registered for the township-level polls. More than 90 percent of those registering cast votes.