The presidium of the First Session of the 10th National People's
Congress (NPC) met in its fourth session in Beijing Friday
afternoon, finalizing the list of the candidates for top government
posts and the list of candidates for leaderships heading
specialized committees of the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress.
The meeting adopted by voting the final list of candidates proposed
at Thursday's third meeting of the presidium and discussed among
all deputies, deciding to distribute the list as official
candidates to all deputies and put it to voting at the NPC plenary
session Saturday.
The official candidates are for the posts of the chairman, vice
chairmen, the secretary-general and members of the 10th NPC
Standing Committee, the president and vice president of the
People's Republic of China (PRC), chairman of the Central Military
Commission of the People's Republic of China, president of the
Supreme People's Court (SPC) and procurator-general of the Supreme
People's Procuratorate (SPP).
The meeting also finalized the list of candidates for the chairmen,
vice chairmen and members of eight specialized committees of the
NPC Standing Committee, deciding to distribute it among the
deputies before being put to voting at the NPC plenary session
Saturday.
The eight specialized committees of the NPC Standing Committee are
the Committee for Nationalities Affairs; the Law Committee; the
Committee for Internal and Judicial Affairs; the Committee for
Education, Science, Culture and Health; the Committee for Foreign
Affairs; the Committee for Overseas Chinese Affairs; the Committee
for the Protection of Environment and Resources; and the Committee
for Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
The Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs has been founded
earlier at the beginning of the on-going NPC session.
The presidium passed a draft list of 36 scrutineers. It also
decided to distribute the list to all NPC deputies before being put
to voting at Saturday's plenary session.
Also adopted at the meeting were a draft resolution on the work
report of the 9th NPC Standing Committee, a draft resolution on the
work report of the SPC, and a draft resolution on the work report
of the SPP, as well as a report by the secretariat of the NPC
session on the handling of motions tabled by deputies. All the
draft revolutions will be submitted to the NPC plenary session for
voting.
The meeting was presided over by Presidium Executive Chairman Wu
Bangguo.
(Xinhua News Agency March 15, 2003)
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