A recent survey conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences showed that the number of people who gathered in the Appellants' Village in Beijing had reached tens of thousands during this year's National People's Representative Conference and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (the Two Conferences). During March, both conferences were held in Beijing. It was the tenth National People's Representative Conference and the fifth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. According to a survey, during the time of the two conferences, the number of people crowded in the "Appellants' Village" in the Dongzhuang region of Yongdingmen District in Beijing dramatically increased to tens of thousands from an average of two thousand.
The Appellants' Village is not an ordinary village, instead it is a place where houses, empty lots and roadsides are congested with appellants who came to Beijing from various regions.
The main reason that appellants gather there is because the visitors' reception rooms for the General Offices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee and State Council, the Standing Committee of the National People's Representative Conference, and the Supreme Court are located nearby.
It was said that the gathering of appellants forms an appellant culture. They affect each other, which results in many problems. For example, they can organize group activities to appeal at Tiananmen Square or Zhongnanhai, the compound of CCP central authorities.
This survey was conducted by the Research Center for Social Problems of the Countryside Institute, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It has received 560 questionnaires from February 8 to March 15.
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