The Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory
body, will start its fifth annual plenary session on March 3.
The date was agreed at the 16th meeting of the Standing
Committee of the Tenth CPPCC National Committee, which was held in
Beijing on Monday.
The meeting also proposed an agenda for the upcoming annual
session, which includes hearing and deliberating the work report of
the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and a report
on the handling of proposals from CPPCC members during the
year.
CPPCC members will also attend the fifth annual session of the
tenth National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, as
non-voting delegates. They will hear and discuss the work report of
the central government, which is to be delivered at the NPC
session.
The CPPCC consists of representatives of the Chinese Communist
Party and non-Communist parties, people without party affiliation
and representatives of people's organizations, ethnic minorities
and all social strata.
It also represents people from the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and
Taiwan, returned overseas Chinese and other specially invited
people.
Known as the government's "think tank", the CPPCC committees at
all levels contain large numbers of activists and public figures
from various walks of life, experts and scholars in various
fields.
(Xinhua News Agency February 26, 2007)