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The revised charter of the National Committee of the Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is expected to
have a major impact on the work of CPPCC organizations at all
levels, Secretary-General of the CPPCC National Committee Zheng
Wantong said Friday.
A resolution on the draft amendment to the CPPCC National
Committee Charter was adopted when the top advisory body concluded
its 10-day annual session Friday.
The CPPCC is the Chinese people's patriotic united front
organization, serving as a key mechanism for multi-party
cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the
Communist Party of China (CPC), and a major manifestation of
socialist democracy.
Under the banner of the CPPCC come China's elite entrepreneurs,
business people, experts and scholars, and literary and art
workers.
In an interview with Xinhua, Zheng said the promulgation of the
amended charter will help strengthen and improve the CPC leadership
over the CPPCC organizations and give scope to the role of China's
political system and political party system in term of their
characteristics and advantages, and help maintain and expand the
common political foundation of the CPPCC's participating parties,
organizations and celebrities of various ethnicities and from all
walks of life, and exert to consolidate and develop the patriotic
united front.
According to Zheng, the most important new contents of the
revised charter include "the system of multi-party cooperation and
political consultation under CPC leadership is a basic political
system in China," and "unity and democracy are the two major themes
of the CPPCC."
To adapt itself to the country's new situation, the revised
charter absorbs a series of important contents concerning "Three
Represents"; "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".
It also covers such crucial contents as helping spread and
implement the CPC's policies toward ethnicities, religions and
intellectuals, Zheng added.
The CPPCC Charter, first created in 1954, underwent four
overhauls respectively in 1978, 1982, 1994 and 2000, before its
latest amendment, which Zheng said was made under the leadership of
the CPC, in a democratic process and in strict compliance with
related procedures.
(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2004)
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