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The Second Session of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a broad-based
national advisory body, Friday passed a package of amendments to
its charter.
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.
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.
(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2004)
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