The Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held its ninth meeting Beijing Friday, which is presided by its chairman Li Ruihuan, and attended by 25 vice-chairmen.

Zheng Wantong, secretary-general of the CPPCC National Committee delivered a report on the process of the on-going session of the 9th CPPCC and panel meetings.

Zheng said Party and state leaders Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Hu Jintao, Wei Jianxing and Li Lanqing respectively called on members of the CPPCC, attended the 9th plenary meeting to hear members' speeches, which shows the Communist Party of China (CPC) and State Council's support for the work of the CPPCC National Committee and carrying forward the democratic working style of the third generation of central leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core.

At a panel discussion on government work report, Zheng said the CPPCC National Committee members endorsed the report, which they cited as a realistic, all-inclusive and encouraging one.

The members also made suggestions for making some revisions to the report and the secretariat will forward them to the General Office of the State Council.

Meanwhile, the members also raised some 40 entries of suggestions with regard to the work of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and the secretariat of the conference, which have been taken into account.

Moreover, the meeting adopted a series of draft resolutions including the Draft Political Resolution of the Third Session of the Ninth CPPCC National Committee, the Draft Resolution of the Work Report of the Standing Committee, the Draft Resolution on the Amendment to the Program of the CPPCC, the Draft Resolution on the Report of Proposals since the Second Session of the 9th CPPCC, and the namelist of by-election candidates for the Standing Committee.

The meeting decided to put the draft resolutions and the namelist for voting on the plenary meeting of the on-going session of the Ninth CPPCC to be held Saturdaty.