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Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of the 9th National
People's Congress, China's top legislature, said in Beijing Monday
that the system of people's congress is a political system of
fundamental importance in ensuring the prosperity and long-term
peace and stability of the country and must continue for a long
time to come.
"The work experiences of the NPC Standing Committee over the past
five years have made us see more clearly that the people's congress
system is a fundamental political system best suited to China's
actual conditions," said Li in his report on the work of the 9th
NPC Standing Committee to the ongoing first session of the 10th
NPC.
Li
said that NPC and its Standing Committee should conscientiously
accept the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and
implement to the letter and in spirit the Party's policies and
guidelines while performing their duties according to law.
"We should translate CPC's guidelines into the will of the State
through legal procedures, and take concrete steps to better
integrate the upholding of CPC leadership with the efforts to make
people true masters of the country and governing the country
according to law," he said.
"This is the most important political principle we must stick to in
the work of people's congresses, as well as the most fundamental
political guarantee for the success of our work," he stressed.
Li
pointed out that NPC is exercising the supreme power of the state
on behalf of the entire people, and must, therefore, attach the
utmost importance to safeguarding the fundamental interests of the
overwhelming majority of the people and must conscientiously
subject itself to the supervision by the people.
He
went on to say that the people's congresses must correctly handle
their relations with the governments, people's courts and people's
procuratorates, performing their roles well in supervising the
governments, people's courts and people's procuratorates, he
added.
He
also stressed the necessity for the people's congresses to display
the pioneering spirit and creativity in theoretical and
institutional innovations with regard to the work of people's
congresses so as to live up to the expectations of the people.
(Xinhua News Agency March 10, 2003)
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