CPC puts forward leadership proposal (02/27/2003)

A list of proposed candidates for leading official positions of government bodies was adopted Wednesday at the Second Plenary Session of the 16th Communist Party of China Central Committee.

The names on the list are expected to be recommended to the First Session of the 10th National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, for review when the annual legislative conference opens in Beijing next week.

Another list of proposed candidates for leading official positions at the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, will also be recommended at the First Session of the 10th CPPCC National Committee, which will start on Monday.

The proposed lists were drawn up by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee after extensive solicitation of opinions, and repeated deliberations and consultations inside and outside the CPC.

The announcement came yesterday as the three-day plenum concluded in Beijing.

According to a communique released via Xinhua News Agency yesterday evening, 191 members and 151 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee attended the plenum, and relevant leading officials attended as non-voting delegates.

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee presided over the session, at which Party General Secretary Hu Jintao made an important speech.

After deliberations, the plenum adopted "The Ideas Concerning Conducting In-depth Reform of Administrative Management and Institutions."

It also suggested the State Council, China's cabinet, submit the "Programme Concerning Institutional Restructuring of the State Council" worked out on the basis of the Ideas to the First Session of the 10th NPC for consideration, the communique said.

Effective government institutional restructuring is essential, it said.

The plenum went further to say that through the reform, a standard, well-co-ordinated, fair, transparent, clean and highly efficient administrative system would take shape, so as to better serve the opening up to the outside world and socialist modernization.

The plenum noted that the People's Congress system was China's fundamental political system, and the system of multi-party co-operation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC was the country's basic political system, both of which have great significance and must be adhered to and further improved.

(China Daily)