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The third plenary meeting of the first session of the 10th National
People's Congress (NPC) concluded in Beijing Monday morning, after
hearing a report presented by top legislator Li Peng on the work of
the 9th NPC Standing Committee and adopting a plan for
restructuring the government and the procedures for election and
appointment.
According to the procedures for election and appointment, the
Standing Committee of the 10th NPC, China's top legislature, will
have a leadership of 16, including a chairman, 14 vice-chairpersons
and one secretary-general.
This compared with the 21-member leadership of the 9th NPC Standing
Committee, which had 19 vice-chairpersons.
The total number of members of the 10th NPC Standing Committee will
be 175.
Also to be elected at the current NPC session will be members of
the 10th NPC Standing Committee, China's president and
vice-president, chairman of the Central Military Commission of
China, president of the Supreme People's Court and Chief
Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
The procedures for election provide that the premier will be
nominated by the president of the People's Republic of China, and
vice-premiers, state councilors, ministers, the governor of the
People's Bank of China will be nominated by the premier.
Top leaders Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Li Lanqing, Wu Bangguo,
WenJiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li
Changchun and Luo Gan were among the 2,892 deputies attending the
meeting, held in the Great Hall of the People in downtown
Beijing.
(Xinhua News Agency March 10, 2003)
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