Shenzhen'S 11th Five-Year?Guidelines and the municipal
government work report will be put to vote at the Second Session of
the Fourth Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress next week,
yesterday's Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.
Lawmakers will also examine and endorse the city's draft budget
for 2006 and the work reports tabled by the Shenzhen Intermediate
People's Court and the Shenzhen People's Procuratorate at the
annual session of the Municipal People's Congress to be held from
March 22-26, the Daily report said, quoting Yuan Qingwen, secretary
general of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal
People's Congress.
Yuan said foreign reporters will be allowed to sit in on some of
the local lawmakers' panel discussions this year, a practice that
has already been adopted by the Provincial People's Congress.
The English version of the municipal government work report will
be available for the convenience of foreign guests, the Daily
report said. Simultaneous interpretation services will also be
provided at the five-day session.
Two press conferences will be held on the sidelines of the
legislative meeting, Yuan said. Officials from Bao'an and Longgang
districts and officials from the municipal public security bureau
and the municipal urban administration bureau will also be invited
to attend the first press conference on urban management. The
second press conference will be held after the legislative meeting
concludes. Mayor Xu Zongheng will be present at the second press
conference to answer questions from reporters.
Consuls-General will attend the Shenzhen Municipal People's
Congress this year, Yuan said, marking the first time they will do
so. Over the past few years, Shenzhen's legislative body has been
inviting consular officials from Guangzhou and Xiamen to observe
its annual session.
(Shenzhen Daily March 17, 2006)
