CPPCC concludes annual session
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The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, concluded its annual session in Beijing Saturday morning.
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The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, begins the closing ceremony of its annual session in Beijing Saturday morning. [Xinhua] |
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the closing ceremony.
Top Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang were present at the ceremony.
Hailing the annual session a success, Jia Qinglin said year 2010 was crucial for China to continue to deal with the global financial crisis, maintain steady and relatively fast economic development, realize the goals set in its 11th Five Year Plan, and lay foundations for its development in the next five years.
He called on the advisors to stick to the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC, and focus on accelerating transformation of the economic growth pattern.
The advisors should also pay more attention to the improvement of people's well-being, help safeguard prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and Macao, and make further contributions to the cause of peaceful unification of the country.
The meeting elected Edmund Ho Hau Wah, former chief executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), as Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, with 2,057 of the 2,113 political advisors present at the meeting voting for him.
It also adopted the work report of the Standing Committee of the 11th CPPCC National Committee over the past year, and the report on how suggestions and proposals from CPPCC members were handled since the last session.
By 2 p.m. on March 7, a total of 1,987 CPPCC members who attended the annual session had submitted 5,430 proposals on China's economic, political, cultural and social development, and environmental protection, among other issues.
According to the report on the handling of proposals, the political advisors attached great importance to China's economic development, people's well-being, and the country's social harmony and stability.
The political advisors also provided suggestions on the development of relations across the Taiwan Straits, the hosting of the Shanghai World Expo, education to further raise public awareness, and on the improvement of the CPPCC's work, the report said.
It said the Committee for Handling Proposals of the CPPCC National Committee had called two special meetings during the 11-day annual session, focusing on the development of strategic emerging industries, and on narrowing the income gap among the people.
Officials from key government departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission, joined discussions with the political advisors about how to handle the proposals at the two meetings.
According to the report, the CPPCC National Committee will hold a meeting on March 30, during which the proposals will be transferred to 168 government departments and units for further handling.
A political resolution was also adopted at the closing ceremony. The resolution hailed China's achievements in 2009, saying that the CPC Central Committee had led the country in dealing with the global financial crisis, maintaining economic growth, people's well-being and social stability, and making major progress in the country's reform and opening up and socialist modernization.
It said accelerating the transformation of China's economic growth pattern was a profound reform in the country's economy sector, urging the political advisors to offer advice on the issue and on maintaining stable and relatively fast economic development of the country.
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