The First Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the top political advisory body, began its closing ceremony on Friday morning.
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Hu Jintao's recent remarks on the relations with Taiwan are significant in guiding the work concerning Taiwan, the resolution noted.
Hu, addressing political advisors attending the CPPCC session last week, said that the mainland would make utmost efforts to do a good job in anything that is good to the Taiwan compatriots and conducive to safeguarding peace in the Taiwan Straits and promoting the peaceful reunification of the motherland.
The 11th CPPCC National Committee has 2,236 members, with 2,148 of them attending the closing meeting of the annual session that kicked off on March 3.
Top Communist Party of China and state leaders Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Zeng Qinghong, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang were present at the closing meeting.
The CPPCC is a patriotic united front organization of the Chinese people, serving as a key mechanism for multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC, and a major manifestation of socialist democracy.
The CPPCC consists of representatives of the CPC and non-Communist parties, personages without party affiliation, and representatives of people's organizations, ethnic minorities and various social strata.
It also has the representation of compatriots of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, returned overseas Chinese, and specially invited people.
(Xinhua News Agency March 14, 2008)