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 next 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 Wednesday as the three-day plenum concluded in Beijing.

According to a communique released via Xinhua News Agency Wednesday 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 "Program 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.

The plenum underlined that institutional restructuring constitutes the important contents for the concept of advancing political systematic reform and an objective requirement for establishing and developing a socialist market economy.

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 also held it was the prime political task for the party at present and for a period to come in the future to implement the guidelines of the 16th CPC National Congress, which was convened last November.

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

The plenum held that the convocation of the First Session of the 10th NPC and the First Session of the 10th CPPCC National Committee would be of great significance in adhering to the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thoughts of the "Three Represents" (The Communist Party of China represents the development trend of advanced production forces, the orientation of advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people in China) and implementing the guidelines of the 16th CPC National Congress in a comprehensive way.

(China Daily February 27, 2003)