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City's political advisory body kicks off annual session

By Yang Meiping | January 23, 2016, Saturday | Online Edition

THE fourth session of the 12th Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the city's political advisory body, opened on Saturday and it will run through Wednesday.

“The CPPCC Shanghai committee will continue contributing its intelligence and forces to do thorough researches and provide proposals actively to help Shanghai kick off the enforcement of its 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) with a good beginning,” Wu Zhiming, the committee’s chairman, said at the opening meeting.

Last year, the committee had organized 15 special investigations and surveys and held 128 meetings on drafting the 13th Five-Year Plan to submit s report to the Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of the China the Shanghai government with more than 1200 related suggestions, he said.

Wu also said the committee will continue paying close attention to the city’s healthy economic and social development, including preventing and reducing risks to public security, and adjusting policies and public resource distribution after the policy that allows each couple to have two children was introduced.

The meeting also reported on how the proposals submitted by political advisers last year have been handled.

A total of 963 proposals, covering everything from promotion of green energy vehicles to development of online finance, were submitted last year. 921 were processed and 911 of them have been solved while the rest are still being handled.

The Shanghai People’s Congress, the city’s legislative body, will hold its opening ceremony on Sunday.

The annual conferences of the CPPCC Shanghai committee and the SPC are often referred to as the “Two Sessions.”

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