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Advisory body ends session, passes charter amendments
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-12 15:33
The Second Session of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's
Political Conference (CPPCC), a broad-based national advisory body, successfully
concluded Friday March 12 in Beijing, and passed a package of amendments to its
charter.
The military band
plays at the closing ceremony of the 2nd session of the 10th Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing on March 12.
[Xinhua] | The amendments include 22 major changes
in four aspects concerning the CPPCC guiding theory, representations of China's
basic political system and the CPPCC's nature and function, the requirements,
rights and obligations of CPPCC members, and improvement of the CPPCC system and
procedures to perform its duties.
Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important
thought of "Three Represents," was written into the CPPCC charter as the CPPCC
guiding theory. The guiding theory of the CPPCC was not defined at previous
CPPCC charters.
CPPCC National
Committee Chairman Jia Qinglin speaks at the closing ceremony.
[Xinhua] | Also incorporated into the amended
CPPCC charter are the expressions: "builders of the socialist cause"; "promoting
a coordinated development of socialist material and political civilization, and
social ethical and cultural civilization"; "consolidating and developing the
public-ownership economy, and encouraging, supporting and guiding the growth of
the non-public sector economy"; and "making concerted efforts for the great
rejuvenation of the Chinese nation".
The system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the
leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is written in the revised
charter is a basic political system in China, along with "unity and democracy
are the two major themes of the CPPCC."
The amended CPPCC charter includes a clear-cut definition of the
requirements, rights, obligations of CPPCC members, such as loving the
motherland, supporting CPC leadership and socialist cause, safeguarding unity
among various ethnic groups and national reunification, and abiding by the
Constitution and law.
The system and procedures for the CPPCC to perform duties have been improved
and standardized.
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