1955年3月10日,全国人民代表大会常务委员会第八次会议决定,直辖市、县、市、市辖区、乡、民族乡和镇的第二届人民代表大会代表的选举,一律在1956年办理。目前正是我国社会主义革命进入高潮的时期。在这一新形势下进行选举工作,应该使人民群众受到一次深刻的社会主义民主教育,更加激发起参加国家建设和国家管理的积极性,并且使国家机关补充新生力量,从而进一步推动社会主义建设和社会主义改造事业的前进。现在,对直辖市、县、市、市辖区、乡、民族乡和镇在今年内进行的选举工作,作 March 10, 1955, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee eighth meeting decided that municipalities, counties, cities, municipal districts, townships, townships and towns of the Second National People’s Congress elections, will be handled in 1956 . It is a time when the socialist revolution in our country has reached a climax. To carry out the election work under this new situation should enable the masses of the people to receive a profound socialist democratic education, stimulate more enthusiasm for participating in the state construction and state management, and enable state organs to supplement the new forces so as to further promote socialist construction and The Progress of Socialist Transformation. Now, the election work to be conducted within the year in municipalities directly under the Central Government, counties, cities, municipal districts, townships, ethnic townships and townships