Walter Hutchens’ Blog

The 3,000 member National People’s Congress—China’s putative legislature—has been conducting its brief annual meeting. Today they wrapped things up, ratifying the “work report” of the NPC Standing Committee (the much smaller body that meets in the long stretches between NPC meetings and approves many important pieces of legislation).

I translated the resolution in which the NPC blesses the NPC Standing Committee’s work for the prior year and sends them off to continue the good work, fortified with plenty of slogans.

I’ll paste the original Chinese after the break.

Some people specialize in parsing PRC political speak. I wonder if any of these phrases reflect the reported tensions over development policy?

Decision Concerning the Work Report of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress by the Fourth Assembly of the Tenth National People’s Congress

March 14, 2006

Passed in the fourth assembly of the tenth National People’s Congress

At the fourth assembly of the tenth National People’s Congress the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress offered by Chairman Wu Bangguo was heard and considered. The past year’s work of the Standing Committee is wholeheartedly affirmed by the National People’s Congress, and the main tasks set forth in the report for the coming year are agreed to; the report is hereby approved.

The NPC charges the NPC Standing Committee to: comprehensively implement scientific development under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important “three represents” thought; stick unwaveringly to the political path of developing socialism with Chinese characteristics; organically integrate insistence on the Party’s leadership with people being masters of their own affairs and ruling the country in accordance with law; tightly integrate Party and national work; diligently create a new era in NPC work; strengthen socialist law in order to develop socialist democracy; and contribute even more to comprehensive socialist market economy construction, political construction and cultural construction.

第十届全国人民代表大会第四次会议关于全国人民代表大会常务委员会工作报告的决议

2006年3月14日第十届全国人民代表大会第四次会议通过

第十届全国人民代表大会第四次会议听取和审议了吴邦国委员长代表全国人民代表大会常务委员会所作的工作报告。会议充分肯定全国人大常委会过去一年的工作，同意报告提出的今后一年的主要任务，决定批准这个报告。

会议要求，全国人大常委会要以邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想为指导，全面落实科学发展观，坚定不移地走中国特色社会主义政治发展道路，把坚持党的领导、人民当家作主和依法治国有机统一起来，紧紧围绕党和国家工作的大局，认真履行宪法和法律赋予的职责，努力开创人大工作新局面，为发展社会主义民主、健全社会主义法制，为全面推进社会主义经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设做出更大的贡献。