The 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-05) was a hot topic during the
12th Session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National
Committee, which ended yesterday in Beijing.
The Ninth National
Committee of the CPPCC offered more than 100 suggestions after
studying the draft 10th Five-Year Plan on national economic
and social development submitted by the State Development
Planning Commission last December. Most of the proposals were
adopted.
CPPCC subcommittees
have carried out massive investigations on more than 40 issues
concerning the 10th Five-Year Plan. Their reports have received
close attention from the authorities concerned and asserted
an important influence on policy-makers.
A proposal concerning
the nation's goals for the amount of major technological equipment
to be imported in the coming five years was amended. The CPPCC
proposal indicated the plan should encourage more manufacturing
in China.
The State Economic
and Trade Commission is now speeding up the formulation of
relevant policies and measures.
Li Ruihuan, chairman
of the Ninth National Committee of the CPPCC, called on CPPCC
members to focus on socialist democratic constructions and
to reflect the opinions of ordinary people.
The 12th Standing
Committee meeting was held on the eve of the fourth annual
session of the CPPCC National Committee, scheduled for March
3.
The Standing Committee
of the CPPCC National Committee also decided yesterday to
hold a series of activities this year to mark the 90th anniversary
of the Revolution of 1911, which falls on October 10. The
Revolution of 1911 ended thousands of years of monarchy in
China, and was the first democratic revolution in modern China.
A resolution by
the CPPCC said that marking the Revolution of 1911 is crucial
in strengthening the unity of the Chinese people for the early
reunification of the motherland.
(China Daily 03/01/2001)
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