Chinese President Hu Jintao urged the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Tuesday to constantly improve its advisory and supervisory capacity to meet the demands in the new century.

Addressing a celebration rally held here to mark the 55th anniversary of the CPPCC founding Hu said that CPPCC should constantly improve its performance in political consultation, democratic supervision, participation in and discussion of the government and political affairs.

Hu urged the people's political consultative conference to adhere to Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of "Three Represents" and be creative in its undertakings.

He asked the national top political advisory body to conduct work in line with the requirements of centering round economic construction and serving the overall situation of reform and development.

He urged the organization to make more efforts in uniting various parties and further strengthen the broadest patriotic united front.

He urged to push forward construction of the system, standardization and procedure of political consultation, democratic supervision and participation in and discussion of the government and political affairs and give further play to the characteristics and advantages of the people's political consultative conference.

He urged the Communist Party of China (CPC) committees and the governments at all levels to follow the important democratic procedure of consultations before making any major decision and policy while giving full play to the CPPCC's supervision over the implementation of laws, regulations and major policies and the performances of the governments and officials.

He called on the people's political consultative conference to pay great attention to self-improvement and asked members of the organization to keep close to the masses, collect and convey public opinions.

(Xinhua News Agency September 21, 2004)