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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- An institutional body is a formally constituted organ vested with defined powers, membership, and procedures to perform a continuing governmental, administrative, or organisational function.
- How does an institutional body differ from an ad hoc committee?
- What are the apex institutional bodies of the People's Republic of China?
- Which theorist linked institutional bodies to political stability?
- How are constitutional, statutory, and non-statutory bodies distinguished?

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In 1954 the Communist Party of China replaced the provisional Central People's Government Council with the National People's Congress, establishing it as the supreme institutional body of state power under the new Constitution.

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