 But in the end the deputy wasn't able to submit the proposal in that a proposal concerning amendment to laws needs signatures from 30 other deputies to be accepted and she couldn't find that many people who would put their names to the document.Starting from 2002, Li kept asking members of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to submit her proposal.Li was married to Wang Xiaobo, a well-known Chinese novelist, until his death in 1997.