The newly-elected chairman and vice chairpersons of the National
Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
(CPPCC) met in Beijing Friday afternoon for their first meeting, at
which they decided to convene the first meeting of the Standing
Committee of the CPPCC National Committee on March 14-15.
The meeting adopted the main agenda for the meeting of the Standing
Committee of the 10th CPPCC National Committee, which, among other
tasks, include deliberating and adopting the decisions to form
special subcommittees under the CPPCC National Committee and its
Standing Committee, and appointing the list of chairmen and vice
chairmen for various subcommittees and the list of deputy
secretaries-general of the CPPCC National Committee, studying and
implementing of the guidelines of the First Session of the 10th
CPPCC National Committee, and working out ideas on the work of the
Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee.
The meeting Friday afternoon was presided over by Jia Qinglin,
newly-elected chairman of the CPPCC National Committee.
All new vice chairpersons of the CPPCC National Committee, except
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, attended the meeting.
(Xinhua News Agency March 14, 2003)
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