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Li Peng, chairman of the Standing committee of the National
People's Congress (NPC), on Tuesday called for greater openness and
transparency in legislative work, so as to ensure that the laws to
be enacted would be scientific, fair and democratic.
The people should be involved in the enacting of laws, by means of
soliciting their opinions, conducting surveys among them and
holding hearings on the legislative matters, he said.
Li
made these remarks at a panel discussion of Guangdong's provincial
delegation of NPC deputies to the current First Session of the 10th
NPC.
Li
Changchun, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee, and Zhang Dejiang, member of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the
CPC provincial committee of Guangdong, took part in the panel
discussion.
In
his speech, Li Peng urged legislatures at various levels to
emancipate their minds, engage themselves in practice, and go on
making exploration and innovations, under the leadership of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) and in accordance with the
Constitution and relevant laws.
China is amid its efforts to build a socialist country governed by
law, Li said.
The leadership of the Communist Party and the role of the People's
Congress are inter-related, he explained, noting that "the work of
the People's Congress must adhere to Party leadership as the Party
is the force at the core leading all our causes forward."
After more than two decades of reform and opening to the outside
world, tremendous changes have occurred in China's economic and
social life thanks to CPC leadership, Li said.
He
urged people's congresses at various levels to foster a strong
sense of Party leadership and accept it self-conscientiously and,
meanwhile, Party organizations at all levels should be good at
bringing the role of People's Congress into full play and safeguard
the authority of the National People's Congress as the state
power.
The top legislator praised the provincial people's congress for the
achievements it had made over the past five years. He expressed the
hope that Guangdong would take the lead in economic progress and in
the administration of the province in accordance with law. "It is
essential for Guangdong to achieve its modernization," Li said.
(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2003)
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