FAN Jinbing left his home in the Pudong New Area at 6:30am as usual yesterday.

But he’d swapped his usual work overalls for a suit and was heading to the annual session of the Shanghai People’s Congress in his capacity as a city legislator.

Waiting on Pudong Avenue for a shuttle bus taking legislators to the World Expo Center where the session is being held, Fan reflected on when he first became a legislator.