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The new National Committee of the China's top advisory body, is
sure to have a still wider representation and will be more
magnanimous with its brand-new line-up, as a growing number of
promising business people from both state-owned and private sectors
have entered China's top political arena.
According to the General Office of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, there would be
33 leaders from major state-owned enterprises and 65
representatives from China's fledgling private sector and other
nonpublic-owned firms in the 10th CPPCC National Committee, which
is due to meet beginning Monday in Beijing, the national
capital.
Upon his arrival in the Chinese capital of Beijing, Xu Guanju, a
prestigious private entrepreneur from east China's Zhejiang
province, urged all his fellow business people to contribute more
and concern ourselves still more to China's future by "sharing more
worries with the state."
Xu, the president of a large chemical firm named the Chuanhua
Group, was elected in January vice-chairman of the CPPCC provincial
committee of Zhejiang, a thriving eastern province where private
economic sectors have been mushrooming, prospering and expanding
dramatically since the late 1970s of the last century, when the
country launched its ambitious policies of reform and opening to
the outside world.
As
a member of the CPPCC National Committee, "I will not speak only on
behalf of us individual business people but the prosperity of the
entire nation," said the 43-year billionaire, who had resumed the
chairmanship of the provincial federation of industry and commerce
last year.
Meanwhile, according to official sources, the provincial-level
CPPCC committees of Guizhou province and Chongqing municipality,
both in southwestern China, have also each appointed a private
entrepreneur as committee vice-chairman.
After explaining that his successful experience indicates the
priority the leading Communist Party of China (CPC) has given to
the role of the private sector, Xu said he would submit to the
imminent meetings two proposals on the topic of private
economy.
In
his proposals, Xu urged leaders of private firms to heighten the
sense of law, accountability and credibility among themselves so
that they, too, were truly conscious and responsible "builders of
socialism with Chinese characteristics" in response to the
Communist Party's call by the 16th CPC Congress convened in mid
November last year.
(Xinhua News Agency March 2, 2003)
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