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Newly elected chairman Wu Bangguo of the Standing Committee of the
10th National People's Congress (NPC) described the First Session
of the 10th NPC as a "complete success," with all items on the
agenda completed as expected thanks to the joint efforts by all NPC
deputies.
He
told the closing of the session Tuesday morning that this session
was another important event in China's political life following the
16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The
deputies faithfully performed their duties as endowed by the
Constitution and law and entrusted by the people, enabling the
session to pass all the resolutions and decisions, fully
demonstrating the people's will and representing their
interests.
The government work report and other reports adopted at the current
session, he said, are the summation of the great achievements and
experience the third generation of collective central leadership
with Jiang Zemin at the core has made in China's economic and
social development, in building democracy and legal system and in
other areas of endeavor over the past five years. They have also
laid out plans for this year and the next five years as a
whole.
The session, he noted, elected and approved the appointments of the
new generation of government leadership according to law, thus
providing the organizational guarantee for carrying forward the
cause of the state into the future and for building a well-off
society in an all round way.
He
praised the 9th NPC with Li Peng as its Standing Committee chairman
for its contributions to building socialist democracy and legal
system. He also expressed thanks to NPC deputies and the people of
the whole country for their trust in the 10th NPC, and vowed on
behalf of all the deputies to perform their duties well with a high
sense of responsibility, be loyal to and set an example in
observing the Constitution and serve the motherland and the people
in all sincerity and will never let the people down.
China is in for a new period of building a well-off society in an
all-round way and accelerating the socialist modernization drive,
he said. The 10th NPC and its Standing Committee will hold fast to
Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the "Three
Represents," carry out the guidelines of the 16th CPC National
Congress in spirit and to the letter, work to consolidate and
develop the political situation featuring democracy, unity,
liveliness, stability and harmony, focus on the central task of
economic development and develop socialist democracy by bringing
the principle of upholding Party leadership into perfect harmony
with the efforts to make the people the masters of the country and
to rule the country by law.
He
said that the 10th NPC will build on what has been achieved in
legislative work and improve the quality in the making of law. He
promised to make a number of new laws and modify some existing ones
in line with the new developments of the socialist market economy
and the WTO rules to make the legal system basically complete
within the term of the 10th NPC as required by the 16th CPC
National Congress.
He
also pledged greater efforts to oversee the government work and the
work of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's
Procuratorate and keep close contact with the people and NPC
deputies and strictly observe the rules of procedures of the NPC
and raise the level of work of the NPC Standing Committee and the
NPC as a whole.
(Xinhua News Agency March 18, 2003)
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