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CPPCC session important: spokesman
   CCTV.COM   2003-03-02 18:03:40   
    The first session of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),due to open in Beijing on March 3, has added significance as it will elect a new CPPCC leadership, a session spokesman said in Beijing Sunday.

    "The leadership change of the CPPCC takes place at a time when the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) set the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and the CPC experienced a smooth transition of its central leadership," CPPCC spokesman Zhang Guoxiang told a press conference at the Great Hall of the People, where the CPPCC session will be held.

    Zhang told reporters that the presidium of the CPPCC National Committee session has the representation of the people of all walks of life.

    Zhang described the work of the Ninth CPPCC National Committee as "quite extraordinary" and its achievements "outstanding" under the CPC leadership. Focusing on the two major themes of "unity and democracy," he said, the CPPCC has made significant contributions to China's reform and opening-up, modernization and the cause of peaceful reunification of the motherland.


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