NPC cuts back on extravagance
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January 31, 2013, Thursday
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Flowers, banquets, gifts, welcoming ceremonies and more importantly, useless long-winded speeches will all be a thing of the past as China's top legislature laid out strict instructions for its annual session next month.
Xi Jinping has made cutting back on extravagance and waste a key theme of his first few weeks in office since becoming Party chief in November, seeking to assuage anger at corruption.
The first annual session of the 12th NPC will start on March 5, during which top state leaders, including the country's president, will be elected.
"Deputies will be encouraged to focus on key issues and avoid empty talk," the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress said in a statement.
"There will be no flowers in deputies' hotel rooms and no welcoming ceremonies at the airport or railway stations," it added.
"All deputies will eat at buffets without expensive food or alcohol, while extravagant galas, gifts and performances will not be arranged," the statement said.
Unpopular traffic controls, which often include shutting down busy main roads and worsening already terrible traffic in the capital city, will also be kept to a minimum, according to the statement.
Xi has already told officials to end their normal practice of giving stultifying speeches and pre-arranging fawning welcomes from local people and banished alcohol from military functions.
Li Jianguo, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, is also pushing for improved working style during the session, the statement said. Li made the remarks after Xi called for the return to the fine tradition of "being diligent and thrifty."
The NPC Standing Committee statement said expenditures will be tightened for the session.
NPC deputies will be encouraged to focus on key issues and avoid empty talk, while the media will be encouraged to report more on deputies from grassroots areas.
The number of session staffers will also be strictly controlled, the statement said.
Xi Jinping has made cutting back on extravagance and waste a key theme of his first few weeks in office since becoming Party chief in November, seeking to assuage anger at corruption.
The first annual session of the 12th NPC will start on March 5, during which top state leaders, including the country's president, will be elected.
"Deputies will be encouraged to focus on key issues and avoid empty talk," the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress said in a statement.
"There will be no flowers in deputies' hotel rooms and no welcoming ceremonies at the airport or railway stations," it added.
"All deputies will eat at buffets without expensive food or alcohol, while extravagant galas, gifts and performances will not be arranged," the statement said.
Unpopular traffic controls, which often include shutting down busy main roads and worsening already terrible traffic in the capital city, will also be kept to a minimum, according to the statement.
Xi has already told officials to end their normal practice of giving stultifying speeches and pre-arranging fawning welcomes from local people and banished alcohol from military functions.
Li Jianguo, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, is also pushing for improved working style during the session, the statement said. Li made the remarks after Xi called for the return to the fine tradition of "being diligent and thrifty."
The NPC Standing Committee statement said expenditures will be tightened for the session.
NPC deputies will be encouraged to focus on key issues and avoid empty talk, while the media will be encouraged to report more on deputies from grassroots areas.
The number of session staffers will also be strictly controlled, the statement said.
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