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NPC session holds 3rd presidium meeting
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-14 09:17
The presidium of the current Second Session of the 10th National People's
Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, held its third meeting Saturday
afternoon.
The meeting, presided over by Wu Bangguo, executive chairman of the
presidium, endorsed to submit the final version of the draft amendment to the
Constitution for vote at the full-member session.
Meanwhile, the presidium submit the draft resolutions concerning the work
report of the NPC's Standing Committee and the work reports of the Supreme
People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate to the delegations of
deputies for examination and deliberation and to the plenary session for vote.
The presidium set forth a draft resolution on approval of the resignations by
members of NPC Standing Committee, Hua Fuzhong and Zhang Geng, which was then
voted by the presidium to be forwarded to all delegations of deputies and
submitted for vote at the plenary session.
Sheng Huaren, vice secretary-general of the Second Session of the 10th NPC,
said in his report to the presidium meeting that the session's Secretariat had
conducted meticulous and case-by-case analysis on all the 1,374 motions received
from NPC deputies, according to the NPC's Organization Law. He also proposed
that 641motions of these motions, which were in compliance with the requirements
set by NPC, be taken as bills to be submitted to the NPC's relevant special
committees, such as legal committee, financial and economic committees.
The 641 motions would be placed on agendas of the NPC plenary meetings or the
NPC's Standing Committee's meetings, after careful studies by those special
committees. And the 733 other motions would transferred as NPC deputies'
proposals, criticisms or ideas to be handled by the executive offices via the
administrative organs of the NPC Standing Committee.
The meeting adopted the report through voting.
By the deadline at 6 p.m. last Wednesday, the legislature had received 1,374
motions, a record high since the motion delivery system was first introduced at
the First Session of the Sixth NPC convened in 1983.
The issues the NPC deputies were concerned most at the current NPC session
cover agriculture, rural areas and farmers, as more than 10 percent of these
motions were pertaining to these thorny problems.
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