Huizhou, located in the southeast of Guangdong Province and at the northeastern end of the Pearl River Delta, is a historical city in Guangdong Province called Xuzhou Prefecture and Zhenzhou Prefecture respectively in ancient times. It has been included into the administrative division system for more than 1,400 years, and been a political, economic, cultural and transportation center of Dongjiang River Basin since ancient times. On the afternoon of October 14, 1949, Huizhou was liberated, and Huizhou Town People's Government was established in December of the same year and placed under the jurisdiction of Huiyang County People's Government. After the liberation, Huizhou was upgraded from Huizhou Town to Huizhou City (county-level) in June 1958; it was changed from Huizhou City (county-level) into Huizhou town in May 1959; it was re-changed from Huizhou Town into Huizhou City (county-level) in January 1968; the Guangdong Provincial People's Government abolished Huiyang Area Administrative Office in February 1988, and the former Huizhou City (county-level) was upgraded to a prefecture-level city. The implementation of the people's congress system in Huizhou region has gone through the course from the conference of representatives of the people from all walks of life to the people's congress, and has been adjusted and improved gradually with the changes in the administrative divisions of Huizhou and the development of the State's democracy and legal system.

　　In the initial stage after the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the CPC Central Committee's advocacy and supervision, a wave of democratic governance building surged up nationwide. The people's congress system has been finalized as the state power system, but because of immature conditions for the implementation of universal suffrage at that time, the transitional form of the conference of representatives of the people from all walks of life was adopted. The conference of representatives of the people from all walks of life is different from the people's congress mainly in the following two aspects: one aspect is that the representatives attending the conference are selected through negotiations by the people from all walks of life, and some of them are invited by the people's government; the other aspect is that it is not an organ of political power, but an organizational form of the people's democratic united front, as well as a negotiation organ and advisory organ through which the people's government keeps in contact with the masses and convey policies, and it becomes an interim organ of political power only when acting on behalf of the people's congress to exercise its authority. According to the "Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" and the instructions and documents of the CPC Central Committee, the Central People's Government and the State Council, the first conference of representatives of the people from all walks of life was convened in Huizhou Town in February 1950, and 4 conferences of representatives of the people from all walks of life (including 5 sessions) were convened up to December 1950 to act on behalf of the Town people's congress to exercise part of its powers, hear and examine the work report of the town people's government, and discuss and deicide on major work and issues, so it played the role of an organ of political power to a certain extent and laid a foundation for the establishment of the town people's congress.

　　In 1953, while starting the planned and large-scale economic construction, the new China also began to take a new step in the democratic, political and legal construction, and the conditions became mature for the convening of the National People's Congress and the local people's congresses at various levels. In January of the same year, the Central People's Government Committee held its 20th session, which adopted the "Resolution on the Convening of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses at Various Levels"; in February, the 22nd session of the Central People's Government Committee examined and adopted the "Electoral Law of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses at Various Levels of the People's Republic of China". In this unprecedented election in the Chinese history, Huizhou Town completed the election of deputies to the first people's congress of the Town in May 1954, and the first people's congress of Huizhou Town was convened, which acted as the local organ of state power at the town level to exercise the powers on behalf of the people in the town. Up to September 1963, Huizhou Town convened a total of five people's congresses (including 5 sessions). In the meantime, Huizhou Town was changed from town to city (county-level) and then re-changed from city to town, and for the purpose of calculating the number of people's congresses, the town people's congresses and city people's congresses were combined, so the first people's congress of Huizhou City convened in May 1958 was also reckoned as the third people's congress of Huizhou Town.

　　When the "Cultural Revolution" began, the people's congress system suffered serious setbacks and damage, and local people's congresses at different levels did not convene meetings and carry out activities during the 12 years from 1966 to 1977, which existed in name only. The local organs of state power were replaced by the Revolutionary Committee which integrated the party, government, military, judicial or prosecutorial power into one.

　　In January 1968, the Revolutionary Committee of Huizhou City was established. It was reckoned as the second people's congress of Huizhou City according to the provision of "Local revolutionary committees at various levels. It was also a permanent organ of the local people's congresses at various levels" specified in 1975 "Constitution", and its duration was from January 1968 to May 1981. After the "Gang of Four" was crushed, the local people's congresses at various levels began to gradually resume their activities in 1977. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in October 1978, which summed up the historical experience and lessons after the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially the painful lessons from the "Cultural Revolution", and put forward the tasks of developing the socialist democracy, improving the socialist legal system and institutionalizing and legalizing democracy. Since then, the people's congress system construction had entered a new historical period. Huizhou City (county-level) completed the election of deputies to the third people's congress at the end of 1980, and the first session of the third people's congress of Huizhou City was convened in June 1981, which heard and examined the work report of the municipal revolutionary committee, the municipal people's court and the municipal people's procuratorate, formed the new administrative organs, judicial organs and procuratorial organs through election, and elected the Standing Committee of the Third People's Congress of Huizhou City in accordance with the "Resolution on Amendment of Certain Provisions of the Constitution" adopted by the Second Session of the Fifth National People's Congress in July 1979 and the local organization law. Prior to the change of the city into a district in 1988, Huizhou City convened 5 people's congresses (including 10 sessions), and the standing committee had been set up since the convening of the third people's congress.

　　In February 1988, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government abolished Huiyang Area Administrative Office, Huizhou City was upgraded to a prefecture-level city, and the former Huizhou City was changed into Huicheng District and placed under the jurisdiction of Huizhou City. In May of the same year, upon the upgrading of Huizhou City, the deputies of the first people's congress were elected; in June, the first session of the sixth people's congress of Huizhou City was held (following the people's congresses held prior to the upgrading of Huizhou City to a prefecture-level city), and the standing committee of the municipal people's congress, the municipal people's government, the municipal intermediate people's court and the municipal people's procuratorate were formed through election.