NPC Session Ends, Endorsing Government Work Report, Legislation Law

The Third Session of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) endorsed Premier Zhu Rongji's government work report which pledges fast economic growth and intensified crackdowns on corruption at its closing plenary meeting In Beijing Wednesday.

Li Peng, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the meeting, which was attended by Chinese Party and state leaders Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Hu Jintao, Wei Jianxing and Li Lanqing together with 2,778 NPC deputies.

During the 11-day session, the deputies examined the Government Work Report, the Report on the Implementation of 1999 Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Report on the Proposed Plan for National Economic and Social Development in 2000, the Report on the 1999 Implementation of Central and Local Budgets and the Report on the Proposed Central and Local Budgets for 2000.

The meeting today first approved three resolutions separately for the validation of the three reports. The Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Central Budget Proposed by the State Council for 2000, were approved by the NPC session.

The report on the work of the NPC Standing Committee delivered by Li Peng was also approved .

The meeting passed a landmark legislation, which concerns the work of legislation. The law on legislation, aimed to cope with contraventions between laws and local and departmental regulations and ensure the unity of China's legal system, will takes effect on July 1, 2000.

The work reports of the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate were, too, endorsed. But the resolutions on the two reports called on the two judicial bodies never to relax efforts in improving political quality and proficiency of judges and prosecutors and resolutely stamp out judicial corruption.

The last resolution adopted was on the confirmation of an NPC Standing Committee decision on accepting the resignation of Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), from the post as a member of the NPC Standing Committee.

Under the Organic Law of the NPC, government officials cannot be members of the NPC Standing Committee.

Addressing the closing meeting of the current session, NPC Standing Committee Chairman Li Peng said that the resolutions and laws adopted at the session reflect fully the country's overall interests as well as the fundamental interests and the will and aspirations of the Chinese people.

The Year 2000 marks the turn of the century, Li said, noting that it is also the last year for the realization of China's Ninth Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development and end of the second phase for China's strategic goals.

"The task for reform, development and stability is arduous," he noted.

The goals for this year has been set, guiding principles and policies clarified, and the most important of all is to ensure the implementation of them, Li said.

He called for the entire Chinese people to rally more closely around the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee with Jiang Zemin at the core, uphold the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, and work harder still to greet the new century with outstanding achievements.

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