The presidium of the current Second Session of the 10th National
People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, held its third
meeting Saturday afternoon.?
The meeting, presided over by Wu Bangguo, executive chairman of
the presidium, endorsed to submit the final version of the draft
amendment to the Constitution for vote at the full-member
session.?
Meanwhile, the presidium submit the draft resolutions concerning
the work report of the NPC's Standing Committee and the work
reports of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's
Procuratorate to the delegations of deputies for examination and
deliberation and to the plenary session for vote.
The presidium set forth a draft resolution on approval of the
resignations by members of NPC Standing Committee, Hua Fuzhong and
Zhang Geng, which was then voted by the presidium to be forwarded
to all delegations of deputies and submitted for vote at the
plenary session.
Sheng Huaren, vice secretary-general of the Second Session of
the 10th NPC, said in his report to the presidium meeting that the
session's Secretariat had conducted meticulous and case-by-case
analysis on all the 1,374 motions received from NPC deputies,
according to the NPC's Organization Law. He also proposed that 641
motions of these motions, which were in compliance with the
requirements set by NPC, be taken as bills to be submitted to the
NPC's relevant special committees, such as legal committee,
financial and economic committees.
The 641 motions would be placed on agendas of the NPC plenary
meetings or the NPC's Standing Committee's meetings, after careful
studies by those special committees. And the 733 other motions
would transferred as NPC deputies' proposals, criticisms or ideas
to be handled by the executive offices via the administrative
organs of the NPC Standing Committee.
The meeting adopted the report through voting.
By the deadline at 6 pm last Wednesday, the legislature had
received 1,374 motions, a record high since the motion delivery
system was first introduced at the First Session of the Sixth NPC
convened in 1983.
The issues the NPC deputies were concerned most at the current
NPC session cover agriculture, rural areas and farmers, as more
than 10 percent of these motions were pertaining to these thorny
problems.
(Xinhua News Agency March 14, 2004)