Economy at top of advisers’ concerns
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OVER a third of proposals from China’s national political advisers this year focus on economic issues, according to a report submitted to the annual session of the top political advisory body which opened in Beijing yesterday.
They made up 2,098 of the 6,012 proposals from members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference since the 2015 session, the report said.
They involved adapting to the “new normal” of the nation’s economy, reforming financial and taxation systems, improving financial regulation, advancing precise poverty relief efforts, and enhancing the level of opening up to the outside world.
Another 605 were about judicial reform and anti-corruption efforts, while 378 addressed cultural issues and strengthening the administration of cyberspace and new media.
In addition, advisers highlighted the importance of improving people’s livelihoods, putting forward 1,486 proposals about that.
Political advisers’ proposals last year contributed to the full implementation of the two-child policy, and pay raises for rural teachers, the report said.
Members of the national committee also made proposals and suggestions on issues including the building of a conservation culture and national defense.
The Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee had received responses to about 99.5 percent of the proposals from relevant authorities, according to the report.
A total of 19.5 percent had been accepted while 64.4 percent were being considered, it said.
Political advisers’ work this year will focus on the enaction and implementation of the 13th Five-year Plan (2016-2020).
Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, said the advisory body’s political consultations were made more fruitful last year while democratic oversight was strengthened.
In particular, members improved supervision over issues of wide public concern such as investment approval reforms and pollution control in northwest China’s Tengger Desert.
Their suggestions, criticisms and supervision helped improve authorities’ work to address those problems and the introduction of relevant policies, he said.
Yesterday’s CPPCC session marked the start of the most important two weeks of China’s political calendar this year. The National People’s Congress, China’s national legislature, begins its annual session tomorrow.
Together dubbed the “two sessions,” the meetings are crucial venues where political and economic developments are reviewed and discussed, and key policies adopted.
This year, lawmakers are set to deliberate on a draft charity law aimed at boosting public trust.
The “two sessions” are closely watched by observers at home, especially on the economic front.
Premier Li Keqiang will reveal the nation’s gross domestic product target this year in his government work report.
The draft 13th Five-Year Plan, a roadmap for the nation’s development, will also be submitted to NPC lawmakers for review and approval.
At a time of slowing global economic recovery and considerable uncertainty in financial markets, people around the world will be combing through those two documents line-by-line the moment they come out in a bid to uncover the various nuances of policy development.
China’s economy, long a reliable source of growth, expanded 6.9 percent year on year in 2015, the slowest rate in 25 years, weighed down by a property market downturn, falling trade and weak factory activities.
`In his report, Yu pointed to “supply-side reform” — a popular notion that includes reducing ineffective and low-end supply championed by President Xi Jinping — and to a new set of development philosophy as policy options at hand to respond to the slowing economy.
The CPPCC should “develop and follow the philosophy of innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development,” and adapt to the new normal in economic development.
Achievements aside, Yu said there was still room for improvement.
“Its investigations and research into key issues need to be more thorough, its mechanisms for democratic oversight need to be improved, its work on promoting unity and friendship needs to be expanded both in scope and in depth, and National Committee members need to do better in the performance of their duties,” Yu said.
The proposals are sometimes considered a barometer of public opinion, signaling issues of concern from industrial policy to domestic violence.
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