The Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the national united front
organization, opened its fourth session Saturday, March 3.
Li
Ruihuan, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, announced the
opening of the session at 15:00. Top Party and state leaders Jiang
Zemin, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Hu Jintao, Wei Jianxing and Li Lanqing
were present.
In
September 1949, the CPPCC was established as an organization to
pursue multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the
leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). A CPPCC National
Committee session is held once a year.
The current session is attended by 2,097 of the 2,266 members of
the CPPCC National Committee who are going to hear, discuss and
approve a report on the work of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC
National Committee by Vice Chairman Ye Xuanping and a report on the
handling of proposals put forward by CPPCC National Committee
members since the last session; attend as observers the Fourth
Session of the Ninth National People's Congress; elect new members
of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee; and
discuss and approve various resolutions.
In
his report, Ye summed up the work of the CPPCC National Committee
in the past year, stressing that the organization has made
important contributions to the promotion of the current reform,
opening up and modernization drive.
Ye's report focuses on a number of issues such as the development
of China's underdeveloped western region, the promotion of national
unity and social stability, relations with compatriots from Hong
Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas.
In
a report on the handling of proposals raised by CPPCC members, Vice
Chairman Wan Guoquan informed the session that a total of 3,733
proposals have been put forward by the members since the last
session and so far 3,302 of them have been handled.
(Xinhua 03/03/2001)