Over the past year, the NPC Standing Committee deliberated 22 draft laws and draft decisions on relevant legal issues, passed 14 of them, heard and deliberated 14 work reports from the State Council...
Last year was a key year for reaching the goal of creating a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics by 2010.
The Standing Committee focused on maintaining steady and rapid economic development in the past year.
The Standing Committee strengthened follow-up oversight to promote development of employment and social security programs.
The Standing Committee added two items to the agenda of its August meeting.
The special committees dealt with 518 bills assigned by the Presidium of the Second Session of the 11th NPC.
The Standing Committee successfully promotes cooperations between NPC, the Russian Federation Council, and the State Duma of Russia; and with new US Congress.
The Standing Committee continued to give top priority to ideological and political development.
China´s top legislator Wu Bangguo said Tuesday that the top legislature would ensure the goal of formulating a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics be achieved by the end of this year as scheduled...
Wu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, said the legislature would promptly formulate new laws, revise some existing laws, and make legislation more scientific and democratic, in order to meet the goal set at the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
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.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.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday the world needs better coordination in macro-economic policies and reforms of international financial system to solve the imbalance of the global economy.
Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday social inequality and injustice remain a woe in Chinese society and he would exert utmost efforts to redress the problem.
Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday China would work together with other nations towards a fair and reasonable new political and economic order of the world.
Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday he is quite concerned about a bubble in the country´s economy, which will undermine social stability if inflation arises, along with unfair income distribution and corruption.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday the country´s exit strategy on economic stimulus should be "very cautious and flexible" in order to shore up the hard-earned economic recovery.