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Top Chinese leaders Wu Bangguo, Huang Ju, Li Changchun and Luo Gan
joined panel discussions of deputies to the ongoing First Session
of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top
legislature, in Beijing Monday afternoon.
Participating in the panel discussion of lawmakers from northwest
China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Vice Premier Wu first
expressed his concerns about the life of people affected by the
recent major earthquake in Xinjiang, and asked about the latest
developments of the relief work.
Wu, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau
of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, then
discussed with the NPC deputies about China's strategic decision to
develop its vast western areas.
"All provinces and autonomous regions in the west should seize the
opportunity to promote a comprehensive local economic and social
development, so as to enhance ethnic unity and local people's
living standards," he said.
Huang Ju, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, also discussed the issue of
western development with NPC deputies from the southwestern Sichuan
province.
"As long as you can draw on the successful experience of other
regions and make full use of your own advantages, you will
definitely find a course of development that suits the actual
situation in your province, and catch up with those
better-developed provinces and regions," Huang said.
Li
Changchun, another member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, joined lawmakers
from northeast China's Liaoning Province in discussing the future
of the State-owned enterprises.
"As an old industrial base, Liaoning should continue to deepen the
reform of State-owned enterprises with strong confidence, and
pursue the course of industrialization of a new mode through
technical upgrading," said Li, who urged the local government to
take effective measures to help workers laid off from the
State-owned enterprises get re-employed.
In
the NPC delegation from central China's Hunan Province, State
Councilor Luo Gan told the deputies that China has initially
established a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics,
which is based on the Constitution.
"To achieve a rule of law in China, all political parties, state
organs, social groups, enterprises, social institutions, and
individuals must make their conducts compatible with the law,"
stressed Luo, also a member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. He also called for
greater efforts to fight corruption at law-enforcement departments
and ensure judicial justice.
(Xinhua News Agency March 11, 2003)
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