2nd plenary session of 14th CPPCC city committee opens
THE second plenary session of the 14th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee began yesterday at Pudong’s Expo Center.
It marks the start of this year’s annual “Two Sessions” of the city’s top political advisory body and legislative body.
This session will run for four days, during which local CPPCC members will discuss city affairs and make proposals.
During the opening ceremony, Hu Wenrong, chairman of the committee, delivered a work report which reviewed the major works of the 14th CPPCC Shanghai Committee’s Standing Committee in the past year, in fields such as Party building, national strategies, city development, and rural revitalization, and set new tasks for future work.
This year, they will carry out work with a focus on key areas such as accelerating the city’s construction of “Five Centers” — referring to the construction of an international economic, financial, trade, shipping center, and a global science and technology innovation center — comprehensively deepening high-level reform and opening-up, and promoting the construction of a global cultural metropolis.
Their work will concentrate on improving the city’s international status of the economic center, enhancing the international standing of the financial center, reinforcing the hub function of the trade center, optimizing the resources allocation capabilities of the shipping center, bolstering the origination function of the scientific and technological innovation center, and promoting the comprehensive reform of the Pudong New Area.
“We will conduct in-depth consultation and deliberation, make well-targeted proposals on political affairs and better serve the overall interests of the modernization construction in Shanghai,” Hu said.
They would also make efforts in mega city construction and management, improving the well-being and livelihood of the people, addressing livability and comfortable living for residents, and continuously boosting the ecological and living environment.
In addition, they would organize democratic supervision and actively facilitate the implementation of the decisions and arrangements of the Communist Party of China’s Shanghai Municipal Committee.
In the past year, there have been 23 special-subject deliberative standing committee meetings, special-subject consultation meetings, and specialsubject briefings.
Nearly 150 special-subject investigations and research projects were organized, and 25 investigation and research reports were made to the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and the local government.