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NPC to speed up legislation on social issues in 2007
www.chinanews.cn 2007-03-11 16:32:32
(Source: Xinhua)
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s
Congress (NPC), delivers a report on the work of the Standing Committee
of the NPC during the third plenary meeting of the Fifth Session of the
Tenth NPC in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 11, 2007.
(Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)
BEIJING, March 11 – China’s top legislature, the National People’s
Congress (NPC), will intensify its legislation focusing on social affairs
this year, China’s top legislator Wu Bangguo said Sunday.
“While continuing work to improve economic legislation, we must also
concentrate on strengthening legislation related to social programs to
provide a solid legal foundation for building a harmonious socialist
society and to ensure attainment of the legislative goal of the 10th
NPC,” Wu said.
The NPC Standing Committee chairman unveiled the legislative plan for
2007 when delivering a report on the work of the 10th NPC Standing
Committee at the legislature’s annual full session.
The main legislative tasks this year include enactment of the Law on
Labor Contracts, Employment Promotion Law, Social Security Law, Law on
Mediation and Arbitration of Labor Disputes, Law on Administrative
Decrees, Law on Response to Emergencies, Antitrust Law, Law on
State-Owned Assets, Law to Combat Illegal Drugs, Law to Curb Illegal
Activities, Law on Urban and Rural Planning, and Circular Economy Law.
In addition, the legislature will revise the Law on Scientific and
Technological Progress, Civil Procedure Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Law
on Food Hygiene, Law on Energy Conservation, and Law on Attorneys,
according Wu.
“We have noticed that a large proportion of the laws planned to be
enacted or revised in 2007 target at regulating social affairs,” said Fu
Yonglin, an NPC deputy from Sichuan Province.
For example, the draft employment promotion law, which was submitted to
the NPC Standing Committee for reading in February, prohibits
discrimination against job seekers despite their ethnicity, race, gender,
religious belief, age or physical disability. And the governments above
the county level are required to establish an early warning system to
prevent, regulate and control possible cases of large-scale unemployment.
The draft law is urgently needed as the employment situation at present
and in a long period to come is not optimistic, said Fu.
Wu Bangguo said the current NPC and its Standing Committee will achieve
the goal of basically establishing a socialist legal system with Chinese
characteristics and improving the quality of legislation before the
current five-year legislative tenure ends in next March.
“Over the last four years, we passed amendments to the Constitution, the
Anti-Secession Law, and formulated or revised 70laws, judicial
interpretations and legal decisions concerning legal issues,…thereby
making very good progress in legislative work,” the top legislator said.
China is in a critical period of reform and development, in which China’s
economic system and social structure, the interests of different sectors
of society and people’s thinking and concepts are all changing
profoundly, he said.
“These unprecedented social changes provide very strong vitality for
China’s development, but they inevitably create a wide variety of
conflicts and problems as well,” Wu said, adding that the legislation
work should always adhere to guide political direction and the principle
of putting people first, base on China’s actual conditions and realities
and follow the mass line.
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