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The draft amendment to China's Constitution was submitted to the
on-going national legislature's annual session for deliberation
Monday afternoon, which includes expressions on protection of
private property and human rights.
Wang Zhaoguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the
10th National People's Congress (NPC), is making a report on the
draft amendment to nearly 3,000 legislators attending the second
session of the lawmaking body in the Great Hall of the People in
central Beijing.
Other major points of the draft amendment include establishment
of the guiding role of the "Three Represents" important thought in
national political and social life, expressions of coordinated
development of material civilization and political and cultural
progress, incorporation of the term "builders of the socialist
cause," and improvement of the land requisition system.
Also included are expressions on further clarification of the
state policy toward non-public sectors, improvement of the social
security system and the NPC's composition, stipulation on the state
of emergency and on presidency, revision of the terms of government
at township level, and stipulation on the national anthem.
The term of private property protection, proposed by the ruling
Communist Party of China, puts private assets of Chinese citizens
on an equal footing with public property, and are "not to be
encroached upon."
(Xinhua News Agency March 8, 2004)
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