The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the
broad-based national advisory body in China, will in 2002 continue
to carry out activities aimed at promoting unity and cooperation
and harmonious relations and easing social conflicts so as to rally
all forces in the concerted efforts to realize the grand goal of
the country.
The major tasks of the CPPCC were outlined by Ye Xuanping, vice
chairman of the 9th CPPCC National Committee, at the opening of the
Fifth Session of the Ninth CPPCC National Committee in Beijing
Sunday afternoon.
He
pledged CPPCC's continued efforts to look after laid-off workers,
urban poor, impoverished people in mountainous areas and other
disadvantaged social groups.
CPPCC will carefully study the issues of how to improve the income
distribution system, how to correct and standardize the market and
how to build a social credit system, said Ye Xuanping, adding that
CPPCC will make the safeguarding of the immediate interests of the
common people the starting point in performing its functions and
obligations and making proposals.
He
promised that CPPCC will keep tract of and report prominent
problems that are most representative and reflect social trends so
as to make CPPCC an important channel for the CPC Central Committee
to obtain reliable and true information and hear views that hit the
nail on the head.
CPPCC will try to further promote socialist spiritual civilization
by adhering to the rule by law and the rule by virtue, Ye said. It
will continue to assist government organs in improving style of
work and to carry out publicity and education in the laws and
policies concerning minorities and religion for the purpose of
consolidating and developing the great unity of all nationalities
throughout the country. It will provide guidance to religious
believers to take clear-cut stand against the sabotaging activities
by national separatists, religious extremists, terrorists and evil
Falun Gong cultists, said the CPPCC National Committee
vice-chairman.
(Xinhua News
Agency March 3, 2002)