Government and Policy

China's parliamentary sessions to draw global attention

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-01 22:14
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Just as Singapore's newspaper Lianhe Zaobao has put it, there is a tendency in China that the government attaches more importance on improving people's living standards and this year will be better than last year.

The international community will also pay attention to new changes in China's political and democratic process to take place during the sessions.

A draft amendment to the Electoral Law is scheduled to present to the deputies during the NPC session for approval.

The draft requires that both rural and urban areas adopt the same ratio of deputies to the legislatures.

As a result, Chinese rural and urban people are about to get equal representation in lawmaking bodies, which means farmers will have the same say in the country's decision-making process as urbanites.

The legislation would promote China's democracy into a higher level,  Malaysian newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh has commented.

In the meantime, China's efforts in fighting corruption have also drawn worldwide attention.

Lianhe Zaobao said that facts have proven the determination of the Chinese leadership to wipe out corruption and the international community had spoken highly of China's anti-corruption drive.

Why is the international community so enthusiastic about China's parliamentary plenary sessions? The answer is simple: China and the world are relevant in development.

It is known to foreign experts that the annual parliamentary sessions are a vital window to look into China's social and economic development, and the policy signals sent by the sessions will play a significant role in shaping China's development and thus influencing the world at large.

Just as former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has put it, China's stability and development benefits the world.

At present, the global economic recovery has not yet stabilized and the developed countries have yet to come out of economic downturn, so China's policy orientation to be shown during the parliamentary sessions would allure eyes from all over the globe.

Dominique Strausse-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, once said that it was beyond all doubt that China would continue to play a vital role in boosting international and regional economic recovery.

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