NPC meets
A deluge of legislation from the 2,000+ delegates to the National Peoples Congress meeting in Beijing is coming.People’s Congress Gets to Work in China
If Chinese media reports are correct, the standing committee of China’s national legislature will vote on changes to the state secrecy law at its annual meeting, which began Friday in Beijing. The revisions have been in the works for 14 years.
A vote would be news to Fang Qing, one of 2,987 delegates to the legislature, called the National People’s Congress. As of Tuesday night, Ms. Fang, a 40-year-old primary school teacher named in 2008 to help represent Zhejiang Province, had yet to be informed of the agenda for the nine-day session.
“You shouldn’t ask me this kind of question, it’s too serious,” she said when queried in a telephone interview about what votes were on the agenda. “You should interview the person in charge.”…
This year’s session also has little on the agenda, pre-decided or not, that seems likely to capture people’s attention. Besides the usual votes approving the government’s work, the biggest item may be an amendment to balance the ratio of urban to rural lawmakers. Political analysts say that, with a turnover of top party leadership just two years away, top officials are not pressing a major slate of reforms...
Despite the lack of drama, the meetings of the National People’s Congress, and a 2,252-member advisory body called the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, are the political event of the year. More than 3,200 journalists have registered to cover the sessions, including 800 from foreign media outlets, according to the government...
China’s Premier Presents Plan for Growth
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China said Friday that the nation would expand social spending, bolster lending, curb inflation and meet its traditional 8 percent economic growth target in 2010, but he cautioned that China still confronted “a very complex situation” in the wake of the global financial crisis.(There's a link to the full text of Premier Wen's report at the New York Times site.)
Delivering his annual report to China’s unelected legislature, the National People’s Congress, Mr. Wen said that “destabilizing factors and uncertainties” in the world economy posed a challenge to China’s continued growth. But he effectively said that China’s plan to slowly ease away from last year’s enormous economic stimulus program, which spared China the worst of the recession, would continue unchanged…
But Mr. Wen’s address also referred to problems in China’s booming economy that some experts say could hamstring future growth if they are not addressed quickly…
China Says It Is Slowing Down Military Spending
China’s official military budget will rise by just 7.5 percent in 2010, a government spokesman said Thursday, a rate that is about half the official increase in recent years and the first to fall below 10 percent since 1989...
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