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Wu Bangguo, chairman of the China's
National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, presides over the
10th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th NPC in Beijing, China,
Aug. 27, 2009. The 10th session was closed on Thursday in Beijing.
(Xinhua/Li Xueren)
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BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature
concluded its four-day, bimonthly session Thursday, after approving the
country's first armed police law and climate change resolution.
Top legislator Wu Bangguo told the closing meeting of
the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's
Congress (NPC) that the new armed police law clarified the nature, command
mechanism, responsibilities, duties and rights of the paramilitary force.
"It offers solid legal backing for the armed police
to complete the country's security tasks, maintain social stability and
safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens and organizations," Wu
said.
Climate change has been an issue of concern among
lawmakers.
Wu said the newly-approved resolution was an
"important achievement" and a significant measure taken by the top legislature
to deal with the global challenge.
Wu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, said the
resolution praised the government's work on climate change, emphasized the
importance of the issue, clarified guidelines, basic policies, measures as well
as China's stance.
He said lawmakers proposed many suggestions on a
climate change report, presented by the State Council (Cabinet), and a draft of
the resolution.
Lawmakers agreed climate change was a challenge faced
by all humankind and needed international cooperation.
Wu said China "as a responsible nation" had been
focusing on the issue, set energy efficiency and environmental protection as
basic state policies and achieving sustainable development as national
strategies.
He said the country had made laws and regulations to
climate change and set energy saving and emissions reductions as binding targets
in the state's medium and long-term development plan.
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The 10th session of the Standing
Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) is held in Beijing,
China, Aug. 27, 2009. The 10th session was closed on Thursday in Beijing.
(Xinhua/Li Xueren)
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The country had "actively participated international
cooperation on climate change and made contributions in mitigating and adapting
to climate change."
He said the NPC Standing Committee "actively" made
and improved laws related to the issue, listened to work reports regularly and
conducted law enforcement inspections on resources and environment, which
offered great support to the work of the government.
The top legislature also agreed Thursday a
legislation overhaul with the updating and revision of 141 provisions in 59
different laws.
Wu said the collective updating and revision of laws
was an important step to ensure a legal system with Chinese features would
become "more scientific, unified and harmonious" and form a complete socialist
legal system by 2010.
"The law revisions at this session solve the problem
that some laws and regulations are incompatible with the economic and social
development," he said.
This was the second legislation overhaul after the
NPC Standing Committee in June agreed to abolish eight outdated and redundant
laws, including one covering police stations that dated back to 1954.
Wu said the next step was to revise laws quickly, and
asked government departments to enact regulations to help implement the laws,
and streamline local regulations.
He said one of the focuses of the NPC's supervision
work was to oversee the economy. One of the roles of NPC Standing Committee was
supervision of the government.
He said due to the complicated domestic and overseas
economic situation, the NPC took supervision of the implementation of the
government's important decisions as top priority.
Each legislative session since April had deliberated
work reports of some government departments, he said.
The NPC Standing Committee also investigated topics
such as affordable housing construction at the suggestion of lawmakers. It would
also supervise the implementation of the central government's public investment
plan valued at 908 billion yuan (133.5 billion U.S. dollars) this year, part of
the 4-trillion-yuan stimulus plan initiated late last year.
Wu said the investigation report on low-rent housing
would be submitted to a legislative session in October.
"Such work plays an important role in promoting the
implementation of central government decisions and stable and relatively fast
economic development."
Wu said this session listened to a routine report on
the implementation of the government's plan of economic and social development,
as well as a report on economic restructuring and transforming the development
model.
Lawmakers agreed that although the economy suffered a
big drop during the fourth quarter last year, the 7.1-percent GDP growth in the
first half of this year showed sound momentum, "which was not easy and a result
of the efforts of the whole country."
Wu said it showed that the central government's
decision of dealing with the impact of the global economic downturn was
"completely correct" and the measures taken were "timely and effective."
Legislators said efforts should be made to ensure
this year's economic and social development goals could be achieved.
The top legislature also accepted Thursday the
resignation of Cui Mingjie, an entrepreneur of central Henan Province, from his
post as NPC deputy, for alleged involvement in "serious economic crimes."
It also approved the expulsion of two NPC deputies --
Xu Zongheng, former mayor of south China's Shenzhen City, and Liu Youjun,
director of the Guangdong provincial department of labor and social security --
for "serious violations of discipline."
According to the Credentials Committee of the NPC
Standing Committee, the total number of deputies to the 11th NPC stands at
2,979.
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature
Thursday passed the country's first law on armed police, giving them new duties
with a statutory authorization to respond to riots, terrorist attacks and other
social security emergencies.
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature
approved Thursday afternoon a resolution on climate change, ahead of an
international conference in December in Copenhagen, Denmark.
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature
Thursday agreed a legislation overhaul with the updating and revision of 141
provisions in 59 different laws.
Most amendments focused on deleting outdated terms or
clarifying them, as well as making certain provisions consistent with revised
laws.
BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- China needs to stress
economic restructuring while aiming at a higher growth, according to a report
submitted Tuesday to the country's law makers.
The report was delivered by Zhang Ping, minister in charge
of the National Development and Reform Commission, the top economic planning
agency, to the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National
People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature.
