The First Session of the 10th National Committee of the
Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top
advisory body, opened in the Great Hall of the People in downtown
Beijing Monday afternoon.
A
total of 2,150 CPPCC National Committee members from across the
country attended the opening meeting, which was presided over by
Jia Qinglin, presider of the meetings of executive chairpersons of
the session's Presidium.
Party and state leaders Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Li Peng, Zhu
Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Li Lanqing, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Zeng
Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan, were
present at the meeting.
The CPPCC members heard a report on the work of the Standing
Committee of the 9th CPPCC National Committee, and a report on the
handling of proposals put forward by members of the 9th CPPCC
National Committee.
Li
Guixian, an executive chairman of the session's Presidium, was
entrusted by the Standing Committee of the 9th CPPCC National
Committee to deliver its work report.
Li
said that in its five-year term, the 9th CPPCC National Committee
provided broadly democracy-based support to major state affairs
according to the principle of "democracy truth-seeking, unity and
encouragement."
The 9th CPPCC National Committee has made every effort to make
every annual session a success and earnestly participated in the
discussion of national economic and social plans, annual government
work report, reports on the budget and final accounts, and reports
by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's
Procuratorate. It received more than 3,000 proposals from different
non-communist parties, organizations and CPPCC members, many of
which are of great value.
The Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee held 20
meetings and its chairman and vice-chairmen met on 48 occasions to
air their views on a large number of major issues, including rural
work, state-owned enterprise reform and a series of major
resolutions adopted by the central leadership. Many of the views
and proposals have been accepted by related policy decision making
bodies and some views have been written into documents of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
Over the past five years, Li said, the CPPCC National Committee
members attended workshops and discussions sponsored by the State
Council and the National People's Congress (NPC). The CPPCC
National Committee also organized 123 investigation tours around
the country.
The 9th CPPCC National Committee received more than 95,900 letters
from ordinary people, collected more than 27,200 pieces of
information, and submitted more than 7,740 comments and suggestions
to the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.
Li
attributed the achievements of the 9th CPPCC National Committee to
the correct CPC leadership, which he said has provided the
fundamental guarantee for the development of the CPPCC.
Delivering the report on the proposal-handling work of the Standing
Committee of the 9th CPPCC National Committee, Zhou Tienong,
another Presidium executive chairman, said that the committee in
the past five years received 17,722 proposals from its members
across the country, most of which were handled or replied
appropriately.
"Of the 16,281 proposals which were accepted after due examination,
98.8 percent have so far been properly dealt with or replied," said
Zhou.
After being sorted out, these proposals were forwarded to more than
180 related government departments, which either replied to the
proposals in an earnest and meticulous manner or took them as
priority references in the decision-making process, he added.
By
revealing social problems, reporting public complaints and
submitting suggestions in their proposals, Zhou said, the CPPCC
National Committee members have contributed significantly to
China's economic growth, political and cultural development and the
cause of peaceful reunification of the motherland.
Heads of relevant departments of the CPC Central Committee and the
State Council, as well as resident diplomatic envoys, were invited
to attend Monday's opening meeting as observers.
During the current CPPCC session, the CPPCC members will elect the
chairman, vice-chairmen, secretary-general and members of the
Standing Committee of the 10th CPPCC National Committee, and
deliberate and adopt a political resolution of the First Session of
the 10th CPPCC National Committee.
They are also expected to adopt a resolution on the work report of
the Standing Committee of the 9th CPPCC National Committee, a
resolution on the work report of the Standing Committee of the 9th
CPPCC National Committee regarding its proposal-handling work, and
a report of the Proposals Examination Committee of the First
Session of the 10th CPPCC National Committee regarding the
examination of proposals submitted to this session.
The CPPCC members will attend the First Session of the 10th
National People's Congress, due to begin Wednesday, as non-voting
observers, and hear and discuss the Government Work Report and
other relevant reports to be delivered at the NPC session.
(Xinhua News Agency March 3, 2003)