¡¡¡¡BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Mainstream media in China do not hesitate to report the selection of late Chinese leaders' offsprings into the new National Committee of the Chinese People'sPolitical Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which was unprecedented in decades, and is widely said as a result from open-minded politics prevailing in the transfer of central leadership.

¡¡¡¡Li Min and Li Ne, both daughters of the late Chairman Mao Zedong; Deng Pufang and Deng Nan, children of late senior leader Deng Xiaoping, and sons of marshals Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng, are all new members of the 10th National Committee of the CPPCC, China's top advisory body, currently in its first session.

¡¡¡¡Chinese media used not to utter a word on whereabouts of high-ranking leaders' offsprings.

¡¡¡¡As a matter of fact, open-minded politics has been proceeding well and steadily along with the ongoing drive of reform and opening to the outside world. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), convened in last November, highlighted the progress of open-minded politics featuring a smooth, transparent power transfer at the top level, observers said.

¡¡¡¡The newly-elected Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committeeand its Standing Committee even made public the topics of its closed-door meetings, which is new to all China affairs specialists both at home and overseas. And last week, the second plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee held in Beijing and its communique overtly released personnel arrangements and other related topics scheduled for the imminent National People's Congress (NPC) and the CPPCC National Committee that opened on Monday.

¡¡¡¡China's media's quick response to the two unexpected blasts that occurred last week in prestigious Qinghua (Tsinghua) and Beijing universities were cited as another example. It epitomized the central authorities' full confidence in their own ability and capacity, as they have come to realize that people have the right to know according to democratic principles.

¡¡¡¡Changes are also apparent with regard to the mood of new CPPCC members and deputies to the NPC. A growing number of CPPCC membersand NPC deputies acknowledged that they are in Beijing to deliberate work reports of the central government, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and to elect state and government leaders.

¡¡¡¡In the previous sessions of the NPC and CPPCC national committee, nevertheless, most NPC deputies or CPPCC members would say that they had come to study and carry out the spirit of the CPPCC and NPC meetings.

¡¡¡¡This tremendous change in the attitude derived from their better understanding of democracy, local observers said. So the people around China could expect more of the new leadership in this regard as they have inherited and are carrying forward a democratic work style with a bright, forward-looking image. Enditem