China's top legislature to step up oversight of work on economy, people's well-being

BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Wu Bangguo said Tuesday that the National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, would improve oversight of economic work and the handling of issues affecting people's well-being in 2010.

The NPC Standing Committee needs to carry out oversight of economic work focusing on accelerating the transformation of the economic development pattern and improving and upgrading the industrial structure, said Wu, chairman of the committee, in a work report delivered at the ongoing NPC annual session.

The committee also needs to focus on solving the most practical problems of the "utmost" and "immediate" concern to the people and urge relevant authorities to correctly handle the relationship between economic development and people's well-being, Wu said.

Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's  Congress (NPC), delivers a work report of the Standing Committee of the NPC  during the third plenary meeting of the Third Session of the 11th NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2010.  (Xinhua/Ju Peng)