CHINA S SIXTH NATIONAL PEOPLE S CONGRESS

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Overview
Information available
as of 15 August 1983
was used in this report.
China's Sixth National
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last year.
China's Sixth National People's Congress (NPC), which was held from 6
through 21 June, reaffirmed the policies of Deng Xiaoping's reform
leadership and produced no surprises. The NPC, though billed as China's
parliament, is essentially a rubberstamp body for decisions taken by the
party leadership. The meeting emphasized stability, moderation, and the
rule of law, continuing the reformers' attack on radical leftism such as
characterized the Cultural Revolution. As is usual with NPCs, economic
matters were the central focus. The overall tone of the Congress was, of
course, upbeat, but the speeches showed a sober realization of the problems
China still faces. The atmosphere was more constrained, the mood more
conservative than the freewheeling exuberance displayed at some meetings
purged during the Cultural Revolution.
? Peng Zhen as Chairman of the Sixth NPC.
The NPC confirmed or announced several new appointments (see appendix
D). Among the most important:
? Deng Xiaoping as chairman of the new Central Military Commission.
? Li Xiannian as President of China-a post vacant since Liu Shaoqi was
Zhao Ziyang (see appendix G).
In addition, two new vice premiers were named, bringing the total to four.
The two new men, Li Peng and Tian Jiyun, are both relatively young and
have backgrounds in energy and finance. We believe they are proteges of
be involved in investigations of economic crimes.
Six ministers, including the economic planning chief, were replaced. The
Congress created a new Ministry of State Security and a new ministerial-
level body, the Auditing Administration. The creation of the new security
ministry reflects the leadership's dissatisfaction with the previous security
organs and concern over the increased incidence of espionage, hijackings
and defections, and a rising crime rate. The Auditing Administration may
localities and enterprises, in the direction of greater central control.
Major speeches at the Congress, while praising China's economic achieve-
ments, were frank in assessing problems (appendixes A through Q. Chief
among these are revenue shortfalls, poor planning and coordination,
excessive capital construction, and too-rapid heavy industrial growth-at
the expense of light industry and agriculture. There was some retreat from
the policies of the recent past, which favored increased autonomy of
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United front activity occupied a prominent place at the session. Beijing
stressed the diverse makeup of the delegates, with greater representation of
.minority peoples-13.5 percent of the delegates. Non-Communist Party
members accounted for 37.5 percent of the total, a 10-percent increase.
The united front theme was played largely for the benefit of Hong Kong
and Taiwan, both of which were reprepresented by PRC-picked delegations
at the Congress.
In foreign affairs, the leadership stressed China's opposition to hegemon-
ism, blamed the United States and the USSR for problems in their
relations with China, and played up China's connections to the Third
World. The Congress reiterated China's calls for Vietnamese withdrawal
from Kampuchea and Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Statements on military matters emphasized increased professionalization
and organizational streamlining. Most of the members named to the new
state military commission are associated with Deng Xiaoping's reform
policies, which have been opposed by some conservatives in the party and
Army. The People's Liberation Army had a slightly smaller percentage of
delegates than in previous congresses, which some observers saw as
symptomatic of reduced PLA influence.
Premier Zhao repeated the message that China's intellectuals have an
important role to play in modernization and admonished localities to
improve their status. Zhao echoed recent statements, however, emphasiz-
ing the responsibility of intellectuals and workers in art and literature to re-
member their duties to the people and to socialism, indicating continued
tightening of artistic and ideological standards. Education was assigned a
high priority, especially secondary vocational schools.
The Sixth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
also met from 3 through 22 June, overlapping-as has become the
custom-the NPC session. The CPPCC is a united front conclave designed
to provide a forum for discussion of national issues outside official party
and state arenas. The CPPCC always has heavier representation of
nonparty members and minority peoples, and from overseas Chinese, than
the NPC. This year, only 40 percent of the CPPCC delegates were party
members. The organization has no real policymaking or legislative power
and not much influence. The fifth CPPCC was chaired by Deng Xiaoping;
he resigned this year and was replaced by Politburo member Deng
Yingchao, Zhou Enlai's widow and a longtime associate of Deng Xiaoping
(see appendix F).
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A. Excerpts From Premier Zhao's Work Report
B. Highlights of Vice Premier Yao Yilin's Report on the Economy 13
C. Summary of Wang Bingqian's Report on Final State Accounts 17
for 1982
E. New Appointments and Dismissals
F. Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
H. People's Daily Concluding Editorial
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Appendix A
Excerpts From Premier Zhao's Work Report
Achievements We have achieved and enhanced political stability and unity throughout the
country and made more efforts to improve socialist democracy and legality.
During the past five years our political life has steadily returned to normal. The
National People's Congress and its Standing Committee adopted a number of
laws, and the State Council promulgated a series of statutes. All this has helped
strengthen democratic management in economic, political, and other activities of
the country and has helped ensure public order and order in production and other
work across the land. In particular, the promulgation of China's new Constitution
marked a new stage in our effort to build up socialist democracy and legality.
China's economy has freed itself from the instability caused by serious imbalance
among its major branches and has gradually moved onto a path of sound growth.
The implementation of the principle of readjusting, restructuring, consolidating,
and improving the national economy over the past few years has led to a radical
change in the longstanding high rate of accumulation and serious backwardness of
agriculture and light industry.
China's agriculture has extricated itself from protracted stagnation and achieved a
sustained overall upsurge. The State Council has implemented a series of rural
policies in the past few years to stimulate labor enthusiasm of the peasants. We
have raised the purchase prices of farm and sideline products by a wide margin, in-
creased the import of grain, and reduced the quotas of grain purchase by the state
in some areas. All this has helped revitalize the countryside. As a solution to a fun-
damental problem that has long plagued China's socialist agriculture, it represents
a step forward that is of profound and far-reaching historic significance.
Our government work still leaves much to be desired and we face many difficulties
on the road ahead. As regards production, capital construction and circulation,
and economic results, for example, productivity gains and lowered costs are still
unsatisfactory and the waste of manpower and material and financial resources is
appalling. Owing to inadequate control over the market and prices, open or
disguised increases in the prices of certain commodities, particularly nonstaple
foodstuffs, have occurred in quite a few places. The building of a socialist spiritual
civilization that promotes socialist ethics has not yet received adequate attention in
some localities, departments, and units. There are certain unwholesome things in
the spheres of ideology, culture, and art. The unhealthy tendencies and practices in
society have not been forcefully and completely checked, and there is no lack of
economic crimes and some other serious crimes. Some government functionaries
have not yet effectively corrected the reprehensible habit of bureaucratism and the
unhealthy practice of seeking personal gain through abuse of government power.
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Tasks Ahead Based on our analysis of the work done in the past five years, as well as on the cur-
rgnt situation and problems, this State Council deems it necessary to make the fol-
lowing suggestions in regard to the work of the incoming administration for the
Congress to examine.
The main tasks of the government for the coming five years should be to mobilize
the people of all our nationalities to fulfill or overfulfill the Sixth Five-Year Plan,
draw up and carry out the Seventh Five-Year Plan, continue to push ahead with
work in various fields centering on economic development, bring about a funda-
mental turn for the better in the financial and economic situation and in standards
of social conduct as put forward by the 12th National Congress of the Chinese
Communist Party, and thus win a signal victory in the struggle to create a new sit-
uation in all fields of socialist modernization.
Economic Priorities In the next five years, we must first of all ensure that agriculture and light and
heavy industries grow in a balanced way ... While promoting the steady growth of
agricultural production, we should get heavy industry to better serve agriculture,
light industry, and technical transformation. We should continue to apply the
principle of giving light industry priority in the supply of energy and raw and
semifinished materials, access to transport facilities, allocation of investment and
loans, and use of foreign exchange.
Centralization Versus Some comrades now hold that reform simply means decentralization of power and
Autonomy interests. This view is both incorrect and harmful. It is wrong to exercise excessive
and rigid control over specific economic activities of enterprises-this hamstrings
their initiative. A proper measure of flexibility is entirely necessary. But major
economic activities that concern overall interests should nevertheless be central-
ized. Any attempt to weaken such centralization means retrogression rather than
progress and cannot ensure the growth of our economy along socialist lines. Powers
and interests appropriate to enterprises must be respected. But it must first of all
be made clear that as the reform gradually spreads, much higher demands and
ever heavier responsibility will be placed on the enterprises. For the various forms
of responsibility, systems characterized by the combination of responsibility,
power, and interests, responsibility is of primary importance.
Economic Law We shall continue to speed up economic and administrative legislation. The State
Council will have a number of economic statutes enacted so as to serve the
requirements of China's modernization. Leading members of government econom-
ic departments and other economic organizations should learn how to use legal
means to supervise economic activities so as to close the loopholes and overcome
weak points that criminals of different stripes may exploit and to safeguard
socialist economic order.
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Revenue Problems While working to accomplish these tasks, particularly of giving priority to key
construction projects, we face the most urgent problem of inadequate central
financial resources combined with serious decentralized use of funds. In the four
years from 1979 through 1982, the total output value increased by 33.6 percent,
which is not a small figure, but our state revenue in the same period dropped by
3.3 percent.
A major reason for the decline in state revenues over the past few years was poor
economic results-as manifested in the continuing high cost of industrial produc-
tion and transport-and the large amount of funds being tied up in commodity
circulation.
Another important reason for the state's inadequate financial resources in recent
years is excessive decentralization of funds, which means that too few funds are
concentrated in the hands of the state. The proportion of financial revenue in the
national income dropped from 37.2 percent in 1978 to 25.5 percent in 1982 ... All
departments, localities, and enterprises must bear firmly in mind the need for
improving economic results and must never stress input to the neglect of output, or
stress state investment to the neglect of making contributions to the state in return.
Wages, Profits, The rate of increase for wages, bonuses, and welfare funds for workers and staff
Taxes members must be less than that for profits and taxes turned over to the state by the
enterprises. The practice of indiscriminately issuing bonuses must be stopped. The
increase in peasant income must come mainly from expanded production and
lower costs. The state provides 32 billion yuan in price subsidies for farm produce
and other kinds of subsidies at present. If measures are not taken, this figure may
continue to rise sharply in the future. This is beyond the state's financial capability
and must be checked ... Nevertheless, the state must be assured of the largest
share of the increased profits of the enterprises, mainly through taxation and the
fixing of a rational ratio between the after-tax profits to be kept by the enterprises
and the amount to be turned over to the state ... The State Council holds that, in
the future, rational distribution of national income, prevention of excessive
decentralization of funds, and appropriate increases in the proportion of financial
revenue in the national income must be placed on the agenda as an extremely im-
portant task of our government work.
Structural Reform It is imperative to speed up structural reform of the economy so as to meet the re-
quirements of economic development. At its fifth session, the Fifth National
People's Congress approved the measures submitted by the State Council to be
taken in the last three years of the Sixth Five-Year Plan period to restructure the
economy.
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Economic Reforms Under Way
The first step in instituting a system of taxation instead of delivery of profits to the
state has been taken in all state-owned industrial and commercial enterprises as of
1 June. In conjunction with the restructuring of government administration, we
are expanding experiments in encouraging key cities to organize production and
circulation better as a way to handle properly the contradictions between higher
and lower levels and between departments and regions. The plan for reform of the
system of rural commodity circulation has been put into effect on a trial basis
throughout the country. These three reforms, being a breakthrough in the present
organization of the economy, have already started, but much remains to be done
and we should continue to push the work ahead.
Planning
First, to reform the planning system and strengthen the state's effective control
over the national economy and guidance to it ... Under the principle of ensuring
the leading role of the planned economy supplemented by market regulation, we
should adopt such methods of management as mandatory planning, guidance
planning or market regulation with regard to different enterprises, products, and
tasks. We should do a better job of economic forecasting and step by step devise
scientific regulations for planning as regards decisionmaking, programing, overall
balancing, appraising, and job responsibility so as to improve and refine the entire
planning system. While making proper use of administrative and legislative means,
the state should use more effectively such economic levers as pricing, taxation and
credits, strengthen statistical work and supervision by statistical means, and guide
the economic activities of localities, departments, and enterprises in the right
direction, so as to ensure fulfillment of the state plan.
Commodity Circulation
Second, to organize production and circulation according to the requirements of
large-scale socialized production and develop a single socialist market. The main
points are as follows: take cities as centers and organize economic activities
according to the inherent laws of economic growth, breaking down the barriers
between regions, departments, and town and county. We must continue to
reorganize or merge enterprises on the principle of achieving coordination among
specialized departments and improving economic results, and gradually rationalize
the organization of enterprises and their system of management. We must
earnestly remove barriers and blockades, open up diverse channels of circulation
and reduce intermediate links in circulation to ensure the free flow of commodities
and gradually form intertrade and transregional economic zones and networks.
Tax, Wage, and Labor Systems
Third, to reform the financial system and the wage and labor systems. The system
of taxation instead of the delivery of profits to the state should be improved, some
new taxes introduced where necessary, and tax rates properly readjusted. Revenue
going to the central and local authorities and that shared by both ... should be
clearly defined, with a view to improving and stabilizing the relations between the
state and enterprises and between the central and local authorities in distribution
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of revenue. Reform the wage system step by step, carry out the principle of "to
each according to his work," and overcome egalitarianism so as to link the income
of the workers and staff members closely with economic results, the success or
failure of enterprise operation, and their own contributions in work. Reform the
personnel system step by step so that people can be transferred to other jobs or go
to a higher or a lower post as required.
Enterprise Management All departments, localities, enterprises, and institutions should unfailingly cut
down production costs and other expenses specified in the state plan. Any
enterprise that fails to do so will incur a proportional deduction in the portion of
profit retained for its own use. All units must ... meet tax and profit quotas
assigned them by the state ... Any unit that fails to do so because of poor
management is, in principle, not entitled to give wage increases to its workers and
staff members. Appropriate quotas must be set according to the merits of each
case for the amount of circulating funds used by enterprises, and any unauthorized
increase is forbidden. All enterprises that run at a loss due to poor operation must
reverse this trend within a given time limit.
Capital Construction Because of the serious overdecentralization of funds, it has been impossible to
control the overall scale of capital construction, resulting in overlapping or blind
construction. It has also been difficult to check the growth of funds for
consumption and, in particular, the rapid growth in the indiscriminate handing out
of bonuses and subsidies in cash or in kind.
At present, waste in capital construction is appalling, and investment in many key
projects is above budgetary estimates. In the future, a strict economic responsibil-
ity system must be practiced in capital construction and waste of all kinds
eliminated. No locality, department, unit, or individual is allowed to collect fees
arbitrarily or extort anything from the organizations charged with building the key
construction projects. The State Council has decided to organize, after this session,
necessary forces to conduct investigations at the key projects.
Energy and Transport In the next five years, we must work harder to build key energy and transport proj-
ects and promote the technical transformation of existing enterprises ... In
tackling the energy problem it is essential to continue to apply the policy of laying
equal stress on development and conservation. In every new project we should
make rational use of energy by adopting new energy-saving techniques and
technologies ... We should step up expansion of the power industry by building
hydroelectric, thermal, and nuclear power stations. A number of large hydro-
electric stations should be gradually constructed along the upper reaches of the
Huanghe River and the upper and middle reaches of the Changjiang River and its
tributaries, and in the Hongshui River Basin. A number of electric power stations
should be built one after another near the coal mines in Shanxi Province, Nei
Monggol, Huainan and Huaibei regions in Anhui Province, and the Liupanshui
region in Guizhou Province.
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With regard to railways, we should focus on augmenting their capacity to carry
coal while actively transforming old lines and building new ones where necessary.
To meet the needs of domestic economic development and foreign trade, we should
increase the capacity of harbors, inland waterways, roads and air transport, and
further improve post and telecommunications facilities.
Foreign Policy We have adhered to an independent foreign policy and achieved new successes in
foreign affairs. We have continued to expand relations with other countries on the
basis of the five principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial
integrity, mutual nonaggression, noninterference in each other's internal affairs,
equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.
Our socialist modernization requires a peaceful international environment. The
preservation of peace is the common desire of the people of China and the rest of
the world. The superpower contention for world hegemony is the main source of
turmoil in the world today. It is imperative to oppose hegemonism in order to
safeguard world peace. The Chinese Government takes opposing hegemonism and
safeguarding world peace as the basic point of departure for its foreign policy and
seeks to develop relations with other countries on the basis of the five principles of
peaceful coexistence and to promote the progress of mankind.
Sino-Soviet Relations The relations between China and the Soviet Union have been strained over a long
period of time, and this is not to the advantage of either party. The people of China
and the Soviet Union are all interested in the normalization of relations between
the two countries. The Chinese side put forward positive proposals for normaliza-
tion during the Sino-Soviet consultations, which started last October. We hold that
to improve Sino-Soviet relations, the first step to be taken is for the Soviet side to
remove the real threat to China's security. This is a major issue that cannot be
evaded. We are waiting for the Soviet side to prove its good faith by deeds.
Vietnam and the Soviet Union must withdraw their troops immediately, uncondi-
tionally and totally from Kampuchea and Afghanistan, respectively, leaving the
people of these countries to settle their own affairs.
Eastern Europe There has been steady growth in the close solidarity and friendly cooperation
between China and the Socialist Republic of Romania and the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia ... The Chinese people also cherish friendly feelings
toward the people of the other East European countries. We are interested in their
accomplishments and experience in socialist construction. In recent years, our
economic, cultural, and sports exchanges with these countries have been increas-
ing. We believe that, through joint efforts, the relations between China and these
countries will continue to improve.
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Vietnam and Other We are distressed by the fact that the once friendly Sino-Vietnamese relations
Asian States have deteriorated to the point of serious confrontation in recent years as a result of
the invasion and occupation of Kampuchea by the Vietnamese authorities who
have pursued regional hegemony in Indochina and Southeast Asia, discriminated
against Chinese residents, and opposed China. Nevertheless, we are ready to
continue our efforts to improve Sino-Vietnamese relations.
We are happy to see that our relations with the ASEAN countries have developed
in the struggle to safeguard peace and security in Southeast Asia. We also note
with satisfaction that our traditional friendship and cooperation with Bangladesh,
Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are being constantly strengthened. There
has also been some improvement in the relations between China and India in
recent years. With 2,000 years of peaceful relations behind them, China and India
ought to be able to get along well with each other. The Sino-Indian boundary ques-
tion left over from the past can without doubt be settled through consultations in
the spirit of mutual understanding and mutual accommodation. Even if it cannot
be settled for the time being, it should not stand in the way of improving our rela-
tions. We are ready to strive for better Sino-Indian relations.
Taiwan and Hong Kong Fellow deputies, the reunification of the country, and the unity of the people of all
our nationalities provide the fundamental guarantee for the growing strength and
prosperity of our motherland. The people of all our nationalities, including our
compatriots in Taiwan, Xianggang (Hong Kong), and Aomen (Macao), and
Chinese nationals residing abroad, eagerly look forward to the reunification of the
motherland at an early date, and this is our most sacred task.
We must continue our efforts to remove as soon as possible this artificial barrier
that separates the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. We shall, at an
opportune moment, recover Chinese sovereignty over Xianggang and take appro-
priate measures to maintain its prosperity.
Third World The Third World constitutes a powerful force against imperialism, colonialism,
and hegemonism. China is part of the Third World. Our basic stand in foreign
affairs is to strengthen solidarity and cooperation with other Third World
countries. It is our sacred duty to support other Third World countries and people
in their struggles to win and uphold their national rights. We firmly support the
people of Kampuchea and Afghanistan. in their struggle against aggression.
New Economic Order Many Third World countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have entered the
new historical stage of consolidating their political independence through expand-
ing their national economies and have done very well in developing their
economies. They are still faced with grave economic difficulties, however, due to
prolonged rule and plunder by foreign powers in the past and to the shackles of
present unfair and unequal international economic relationships. The Third World
countries strongly demand that this irrational state of affairs be changed and that
a new international economic order be established. The Chinese Government
firmly supports this just stand.
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Middle East We firmly support the Arab people, and particularly the Palestinian people, in
their struggle against Israeli aggression and expansion. Israel must withdraw from
the Arab territories it has occupied. The national rights of the Palestinian people
must be restored to them.
Africa
Central America
Intellectuals
We resolutely support the Namibian people in their struggle for national
independence and the people of South Africa in their struggle against racial
discrimination and apartheid and for national liberation.
We resolutely support the peoples of Central America, and particularly of the
Caribbean region, in their struggle to uphold independence and sovereignty and to
oppose foreign intervention.
The persistent, erroneous tendency to belittle knowledge and discriminate against
intellectuals has gradually been corrected, and education, science, and culture
have improved. From now on we should stress the development of intellectual
resources, giving priority to the development of culture, which focuses on the
promotion of education and science and technology. This is a prerequisite for
invigorating China's national economy.
The key to strengthening cultural work lies in implementing more fully our policies
on intellectuals so as to bring their enthusiasm into full play. All departments and
localities should, in the light of their own conditions, adopt measures to improve
their work toward intellectuals in real earnest. Intellectuals should receive gradual
and appropriate increases in remuneration for their work. Since the salaries of
those middle-aged intellectuals, who play the backbone role, are far too low, the
state will, despite financial difficulties, do its best to raise their salaries gradually
to a level corresponding to their posts and titles.
In order to tap our intellectual resources and promote the advance of education,
science, literature, art, physical culture, and public health, thus ensuring a
balanced and proportionate economic and social development in our country, the
State Council has decided to increase investment in these areas year by year.
We must now give prominence to developing higher education and quickly training
personnel for all trades and professions. The State Council recently approved the
report submitted by the Ministry of Education and the State Planning Commission
on speeding up the expansion of higher education in different forms. Enrollment in
regular colleges and universities is to rise from 315,000 in 1982 to 550,000 in 1987,
a 75-percent jump in those five years. We will also try to provide higher education
through such forms as radio, TV, and correspondence university classes and
evening colleges, and college for training managerial personnel and for advanced
training of teachers so that their enrollment can grow from 290,000 in 1982 to 1.1
million in 1987, a 280-percent rise.
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China's specialized secondary school education has been slow in growing over the
years, with the result that the ratio of intermediate and high-level specialists is
seriously out of balance ... Senior middle vocational school students should
account for over 40 percent of the total senior middle school enrollment in the next
five years ... More secondary schools and institutes of political science and law
should be established to provide regular training for in-service personnel so that
the public security, procuratorial and judicial contingents become a well-trained
force cherished by the people as the pillar of public order.
Science and Technology The most pressing problem confronting us is the unified arrangement and proper
use of scientific and technical personnel. In order to do this, we will take the
following measures: (1) break down the barriers between departments and between
regions and work out unified placement and appropriate use of scientific and
technical personnel on a nationwide scale through the drawing up of the
development program, the joint tackling of key scientific and technical projects,
and establishment of technological development centers; (2) transfer in a planned
way a number of scientific and technical personnel from heavy and defense
industries to energy, transport, light industry, and agriculture where such person-
nel are few; transfer a number of personnel from institutions of higher education
and scientific research that are well staffed to secondary schools or vocational
schools to augment their teaching staff; (3) set up a system of rational interflow of
scientific and technical personnel so that they can move from overstaffed to
understaffed departments and to encourage them to go to small and medium-sized
cities, the rural areas, national minority areas, and remote border regions; (4)
create a system of dual control over the country's scientific and technical
personnel, grading them according to whether they come under the management
of the central or local authorities, and according to their trades or professions and
specialties; and (5) improve the systems of appraisal, promotion, and awards and
the conferring of academic titles on scientific and technical personnel so as to raise
the professional competence of those who are young and middle age.
Efforts should be continued during the Sixth Five-Year Plan period to build the 38
key research projects and to disseminate and apply 40 major scientific and
technological research achievements ... In addition, the government is organizing
the scientific and technical personnel concerned to make first-phase preparations
and begin research on important construction subjects for the 279 major projects
now planned. We should also strive to digest, assimilate, and spread advanced
technology introduced from other countries so as to raise China's level of
production and technology more quickly through imported technology and joint
production.
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Ideology, Art, and Under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought and the
Literature principles of integrating theory with practice and of "letting a hundred flowers
blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend," people specialized in
philosophy and other social sciences should conduct creative research into the
major ideological, theoretical, and practical problems arising from our socialist
modernization, summarize from a historical perspective the achievements and
lessons gained in all fields since the founding of the People's Republic, and
analytically study and criticize different trends of thought in the world so as to
assimilate what is useful and produce research results of high quality.
Our aim is to ensure the flourishing of socialist literature and art and enhance the
ideological and artistic quality of writers and artists and of their works. While
continuing to overcome "left" errors, we must constantly watch out for the
tendency of some works toward crass commercialism regardless of social conse-
quences; this has already appeared and had a pernicious influence. We should
adopt effective measures to rectify this tendency ... All ideological, cultural, and
art workers must cultivate a deep sense of responsibility to the people and live up
to their expectations.
Law and Order The success of China's modernization requires us to redouble our efforts to build
socialist democracy and the legal system, improve the work of public security, the
procuratorate and the judiciary, curb violations of the law and social discipline,
make a fundamental turn for the better in the standards of social conduct, and
continue to strengthen political stability and unity.
The new Constitution is the basic statute for the Chinese people in running the
affairs of the state. The people must be educated and organized to enforce it
conscientiously. There has been improvement in recent years, thanks to the efforts
made by various quarters, but public order is still not as good as in the best years
after the founding of the People's Republic. Such criminal offenses as murder,
robbery, rape, and larceny pose quite a problem in some places. The recent plane
hijacking indicates that there are serious loopholes and defects in our system of
management, that public security, procuratorial, and judicial departments have
failed to perform some of their functions effectively as organs of dictatorship, and
that some departments are intolerably apathetic both politically and ideologically,
maintaining not the slightest vigilance against enemies.
It is imperative to build up urban residents' committees, villagers' committees, and
public security and people's mediation organizations under them, and to encourage
the urban residents and peasants to draw up common pledges and work regula-
tions, so as to foster the initiative of the masses in maintaining public order and
observing social morality as masters of the country.
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Internal Security Fellow deputies, China's socialist modernization is being carried out in a complex
and turbulent international situation. To protect the security of the state and
strengthen our struggle against espionage, the State Council is submitting to the
present Congress for its approval the request to establish a Ministry of State
Security, which will provide more effective leadership over such work.
We must continue to modernize our national defense and raise our national
defense capabilities to keep pace with current international developments. The
Chinese People's Liberation Army must step up its military and political training;
strive to revolutionize, modernize, and regularize itself; and increase its capability
for operations by combined Army units and for quick response under conditions of
modern war.
Population Control Stimulating production and improving the people's living standards both require
that we continue to lay special stress on population control. This is our national
policy, a policy of fundamental, strategic importance. We must persistently
advocate late marriage and one child per couple, strictly control second births,
prevent additional births by all means, earnestly carry out effective birth control
measures, and firmly protect infant girls and their mothers. In order to promote
family planning, we must use all available means to provide diverse forms of old-
age care.
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Appendix B
Highlights of Vice Premier
Yao Yilin's Report
on the Economy
Vice Premier Yao Yilin, in his capacity as State Planning Commission chief,
delivered a report on the 1983 economic plan. He discussed current problems in
the economy-most notably excessive investment spending-and described the
general focus of economic work in the coming year to address these problems.
Agriculture Yao attributed the unusually large increase (11 percent) in the value of agricul-
tural output to the government's agricultural policies and to favorable weather ...
output of grain, China's most important commodity, hit a historic peak of 353
million tons ... cotton increased by 21.3 percent ... oil-bearing crops hit alltime
highs ... sugar-bearing crops, mulberry silkworm cocoons, tea, pork, beef, mutton,
and aquatic products all registered substantial increases ... the 1983 target for
agricultural growth is 4 percent, far below the 1982 growth rate ... except for
some southern areas where production has been hampered by windstorms, summer
crops promise bumper harvests.
Industrial output value registered a 7.7-percent increase over 1981 and exceeded
the 4-percent target ... 91 of the 110 major industrial products reached or
surpassed the plan ... light industry fell shy of the 7-percent target because of a
market-induced reduction in the output of synthetic polyester-cotton fabric ...
output of bicycles, sewing machines, TV sets, washing machines, tape recorders,
cotton cloth, woolen and silk fabrics, paper, and detergents all increased ... heavy
industry output value rose by 9.9 percent, far exceeding the target of 1 percent,
due to the sharp increase in demand for investment goods and to the unanticipated
rise in demand for agricultural producer goods ... steel products, cement, glass,
acids, alkalis, plastics, power-generating and mining equipment, and walking
tractors all surpassed their goals ... output of coal, crude oil, and electricity all in-
creased and surpassed targets, but Yao claimed that 1982 plan targets for these
products had been deliberately set low ... railway, water and road transport, civil
aviation, and post and communications targets were all overfulfilled ... the 1983
plan calls for "ensuring a 4-percent increase and striving for a 5-percent increase"
in industrial production ... light industry is to grow by 4.1 percent, heavy industry
by 3.9 percent ... output value of industry in January-April 1983 was 7.6 percent
higher than the corresponding period of 1982.
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The 1982 investment in the state-owned sector was 84.5 billion yuan, of which 55.5
billion yuan was capital construction (investment in new fixed assets) and 29 billion
yuan went to renewal and replacement of existing assets ... 1982 capital
construction overshot the plan by over 11 billion yuan and the government's 1983
investment goals are to cut overall spending-by deleting many local projects-
and to concentrate investment in key construction projects, particularly in energy
and transport ... capital construction in 1983 is targeted for 50.7 billion yuan and
replacement will be 24 billion yuan.
Retail Sales and Prices Retail sales in 1982 increased by 7.3 percent in real terms ... the supply of
foodstuffs, clothing, and daily consumer goods was "fairly adequate," while
supplies and selections of some other commodities showed the need for improve-
ment ... market prices remained stable, rising about 2 percent ... the goal for
1983 is to increase retail sales 7.8 percent while constraining purchasing power
increases ... circulation of commodities between urban and rural areas must
improve ... the government will attempt to stabilize purchase prices of major
farm and sideline products and control price subsidies for farm produce and
agricultural producer goods.
Living Standards Living standards of the urban and rural population continued to rise in 1982.. .
annual per capita net income of peasants averaged 270 yuan, an increase of 15.2
percent ... 6.65 million persons were given jobs in urban areas ... housing
conditions improved ... government, scientific, cultural, educational, public health
workers received wage increases.
Foreign Trade Foreign trade continued to expand, registering an increase of 5 percent over 1981
. exports were up by 12.7 percent, while imports dropped 2.7 percent, resulting
in a trade surplus of 5.7 billion yuan.
Major Problems Yao cited three major problems facing the economy ... first, the increase in the
scale of investment was excessive ... second, overspending on investment caused
too great an increase in heavy industry, consequently depriving light industry of
inputs ... third, too little emphasis was placed on improving productivity.
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Alleviation of Problems Continue to apply the policy of "readjusting, restructuring, consolidating, and
improving" the national economy, and concentrate on raising productivity ... Yao
cited three specific areas of focus ... first, strictly control the volume of
investment and ensure the completion of key construction projects on schedule ...
second, continue with reorganization and consolidation efforts, including the major
reform of taxing state-owned enterprises ... third, keep the rate of heavy industry
growth within the plan and develop light industry faster ... generally, targets
should be set low to facilitate concentration on productivity improvements.
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Table I
State Accounts, 1982
Budgeted
Final
Final as
Percent of
Budget
Line Item as
Percent of
Revenues/
Expenditures
110.45
112.40
101.8
100.0
Foreign
5.00
4.00
80.0
3.6
Domestic
105.45
108.39
102.8
96.4
Taxes
64.60
70.00
108.4
62.3
34.41
29.65
86.2
26.4
Depreciation fund
2.20
2.58
117.3
2.3
Other
0.24
1.78
741.7
1.6
Expenditures
113.45
115.33
101.7
100.0
29.73
30.92
104.0
26.8
Foreign
5.00
4.00
80.0
3.5
Domestic
24.73
26.91
108.8
23.3
Technical transfer
5.42
6.90
127.3
6.0
Working capital
2.40
2.36
98.7
2.1
Geological prospects
2.30
2.31
100.4
2.0
Agriculture
7.61
7.99
105.0
6.9
Culture/Education/Science/Philosophy
18.00
19.70
109.4
17.1
Defense
17.80
17.64
99.1
15.3
Administration
7.80
8.16
104.6
7.1
Foreign loan repayment
3.55
4.96
139.7
4.3
Other
18.84
14.41
76.5
12.5
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Appendix C
Summary of Wang Bingqian's Report
on Final State Accounts for 1982
Finance Minister Wang Bingqian's report on the 1'982 state budget followed the
pattern of previous speeches and provided the usual breakdowns of revenues and
expenditures. It also discussed "salient features" and "problems" in the implemen-
tation of the 1982 budget and described the budget position in the first four
months of 1983.
State revenues totaled 112.40 billion yuan ... expenditures were 115.33 billion
yuan ... according to Wang, the deficit, 2.93 billion yuan, will be made up by an
overdraft from the People's Bank of China ... (see tables 1 and 2 for budget data).
Wang said revenues have begun to pick up, reversing a three-year decline ... tax
receipts greatly surpassed the budgeted figure, due to increased production,
expanded commodity circulation, stronger fiscal oversight, and new taxes ...
profits fell below the state target partly due to poor performance in some sectors
and partly because new taxes supplanted what were originally to have been profit
remittances ... treasury bonds were oversubscribed by 9.6 percent.
Expenditures Capital construction appropriations exceeded the state target because of increased
investment in the infrastructure ... funds to tap the potential of existing
enterprises and finance their technical transformation greatly exceeded the
budgeted figure because additional allocations were provided by central financial
authorities, and localities used some of their own reserve funds ... operating
expenses for agriculture exceeded the target due to additional outlays by central
financial authorities and by localities from reserve funds ... expenses for culture,
education, science, and public health services exceeded the plan as more personnel
were hired and some workers received pay hikes ... administrative expenses
increased as more personnel were recruited to strengthen public security and
judicial work ... allocation of circulating funds for enterprises fell short of the tar-
get ... geological prospecting appropriations basically met needs of its expansion
... expenditures for foreign loans repayment exceeded the plan by 39.8 percent
due to favorable balance of foreign trade, which allowed payments to be made
ahead of schedule.
Unresolved Problems A low effectiveness in production, circulation, and construction ... overdecentrali-
zation of funds ... an increase in state revenue that lags behind the growth in pro-
duction ... lack of a management system to allocate funds for key construction
projects ... ordinary projects squeezing out key projects ... duplicate construction
... blind development.
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Table 2
State Accounts, 1983
(1 January-30 April)
1983 1983 Percent of total Percent Change
Budget January-April Budget Over Same Period
Last Year
Current Performance Up to the end of April 1983, the growth rate of revenue failed to reach the annual
budget target, while expenditures were above the specified figure.
Finance Minister Wang indicates that the state deficit will be made up by an over-
draft from the People's Bank of China. Official bank figures, however, do not
confirm this ... beginning 1 June 1983, China implemented an experimental tax
policy in which the state-run enterprises substitute the payment of taxes for the
current system of delivery of profits, in order to break the situation in which
"everyone eats from the same big pot." We expect to see a change in the
composition, and a possible increase, in state revenues as the result of the
implementation of this policy ... although budgetary appropriations for capital
construction exceeded the estimated figure, key projects were affected by a lack of
funds because investment by various localities, departments, and units using their
own funds or bank loans increased tremendously, dispersing manpower, material,
and financial resources.
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Appendix D
The New Government
Sixth NPC Standing Committee
Chairman
Vice Chairmen
Appointments
President of the PRC
Vice President of the PRC
President of the Supreme People's Court
Procurator General of the Supreme People's
Procuratorate
Central Military Commission
Chairman
Vice Chairmen
Peng Zhen
Chen Pixian
Wei Guoqing (Zhuang)
Geng Biao
Hu Juewen
Xu Deheng
Peng Chong
Wang Renzhong
Shi Liang (f)
Zhu Xuefan
Ngapo Ngawang Jigme
(Tibetan)
Bainqen Erdin Qoigyi
Gyaincain (Tibetan)
Seypidin (Uygur)
Zhou Gucheng
Yan Jici
Hu Yuzhi
Rong Yiren
Ye Fei
Liao Hansheng
Han Xianchu
Huang Hua
Wang Hanbin
Li Xiannian '
Ulanhu
Zheng Tianxiang
Yang Yichen
Deng Xiaoping
Ye Jianying
Xu Xianngqian
Nie Rongzhen
Yang Shangkun
Yu Qiuli
Yang Dezhi
Zhang Aiping
Hong Xuezhi
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State Council
Premier
Vice Premier
Secretary-General
Ministers
Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fishery
Aeronautics Industry
Astronautics Industry
Chemical Industry
Civil Affairs
Coal Industry
Commerce
Communications
Culture
Education
Electronics Industry
Finance
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Economic Relations & Trade
Forestry
Geology & Mineral Resources
Justice
Labor & Personnel
Light Industry
Machine-Building Industry
Metallurgical Industry
National Defense
Nuclear Industry
Ordnance Industry
Petroleum Industry
Posts & Telecommunications
Public Health
Public Security
Zhao Ziyang
Wan Li
Yao Yilin
Li Peng '
Tian Jiyun
Zhang Aiping
Fang Yi
Gu Mu
Kang Sh'ien
Chen Muhua (f)
Ji Pengfei
Wu Xueqian
Wang Bingqian'
Song Ping '
Zhang Aiping
Zhang Jingfu
Tian Jiyun'
He Kang '
Mo Wenxiang
Zhang Jun
Qin Zhongda
Cui Naifu
Gao Yangwen
Liu Yi
Li Qing
Zhu Muzhi
He Dongchang
Jiang Zemin'
Wang Bingqian
Wu Xueqian
Chen Muhua (f)
Yang Zhong
Sun Daguang
Zou Yu'
Zhao Shouyi
Yang Bo
Zhou Jiannan
Li Dongye
Zhang Aiping
Jiang Xinxiong'
Yu Yi
Tang Ke
Wen Minsheng
Cui Yueli
Liu Fuzhi'
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Radio & Television
Railways
State Security 2
Textile Industry
Urban & Rural Construction & Environmental
Protection
Water Conservancy & Electric Power
State Economic Commission
State Family Planning Commission
State Nationalities Affairs Commission
State Physical Culture & Sports Commission
State Planning Commission
State Restructuring of Economic System
Commission
State Science, Technology & Industry
Commission
Science, Technology & Industry for National
Defense Commission
Auditor General of Auditing Administration 2
President, People's Bank of China
Director General' of XinHUA news agency
Wu Lengxi
Chen Puru
Ling Yun'
Wu Wenying (f)
Li Ximing
Qian Zhengying (0
Zhang Jingfu
Qian Xinzhong
Yang Jingren
Li Menghua
Song Ping'
Zhao Ziyang
Yu Mingtao'
Lu Peijian
Mu Qing
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Appendix E
Vice Premiers
Li Peng
CPC Central Committee
Vice Minister of Water Re-
sources and Electric Power
Secretary General of State
Council; CPC Central Commis-
sion
Deputy Secretary General of
the State Council
State Councilors
Wu Xueqian
Minister of Foreign Affairs;
CPC Central Committee
Vice Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs; Deputy Head of Interna-
tional Liaison Department of
CPC Central Committee
Wang Bingqian
Minister of Finance; CPC
Central Committee
Vice Minister of Finance
Minister in Charge of State
Planning Commission; CPC
Central Committee
Vice Minister of SPC
Minister in Charge of State
Economic Commission
Governor of Anhui; 1st Political
Commissar of provincial mili-
tary district
Agriculture
He Kang
CPC Central Committee
Vice Minister of Agriculture,
Animal Husbandry & Fishery
Electronics
Jiang Zemin
CPC Central Committee
Vice Minister of Electronics;
Vice Chairman of State
Import-Export Commission
Nuclear
Jiang Xinxiong
Vice Minister of Nuclear
Industry
State Security
Ling Yun
Vice Minister of Public
Security
State Planning Commission
Song Ping
State Councilor; CPC Central
Committee
Vice Minister of State Planning
Commission
Auditing
Yu Mingtao
CPC Central Committee
Vice Minister of Textiles; Gov-
ernor of Shaanxi Province
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New Appointments and Dismissals (continued)
Secretariat; Director, General
Political Department, PLA;
member, Central Military
Commission; CPC Central
Committee
Bo Yibo
State Councilor
Vice Chairman of Central Ad-
visory Commission of CCP
Huang Hua
State Councilor
Vice Chairman of Sixth NPC;
CPC Central Committee
Ministers
Lin Hujia
Minister of Agriculture, Ani-
CPC Central Committee
mal Husbandry, & Fishery
Zhang Ting
Minister of Electronics
Industry
Liu Fuzhi
Minister of Justice
Zhang Chen
Minister of Nuclear Industry
Zhao Cangbi
Minister of Public Security
Political Commissar of People's
Armed Police; CPC Central
Committee
Minister in Charge of State
Vice Premier of State Council;
Planning Commission
Secretariat; Politburo, alternate
member, CPC Central
Committee
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Appendix F
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Chairman
Vice Chairmen
Deng Yingchao (f)
Ba Jin
Burhan Shahidi
Chen Zaidao
Cheng Zihua
Deng Haoxiang
Dong Qiwu
Fei Xiaotong
Hu Ziang
Ji Fang
Kang Keqing (f)
Liu Lantao
Lu Dingyi
Lu Zhengcao
Miao Yuntai
Qu Wu
Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai
Qian Changzhao
Tao Zhiyue
Wang Guangying
Wang Kunlun
Xiao Hua
Yang Chengwu
Yang Jingren
Ye Shangtao
Zhao Puchu
Zhou Jianren
Zhou Peiyuan
Zhou Shutao
Zhuang Xiquan
Secretary General of Peng Youjin
Standing Committee
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Appendix H
People's Daily Concluding Editorial
Renmin Ribao (22 June 1983)
The first session of the Sixth NPC concluded success-
fully yesterday. The first session of the Sixth CPPCC
National Committee is to conclude today. The people
of all nationalities throughout the country have been
keenly concerned with these two meetings, which have
successfully elected their new leading bodies and new
state leadership and have smoothly effected the pur-
pose of substituting the old with the new and carrying
out cooperation between the old and the new. All this
has provided a reliable organizational guarantee for
the healthy development of the socialist cause in all
fields. All deputies attending the first session of the
Sixth NPC have made lively discussions on the gov-
ernment work report delivered by Premier Zhao
Ziyang and other reports. They generally hold that
the reports conform to the ideological line of seeking
truth from facts and tally with our country's actual
conditions, so those reports are inspiring. All members
of the CPPCC attending the NPC session as observers
have also discussed these reports, have put forward
many proposals and ideas, and have adopted a resolu-
tion on the work of the CPPCC. We warmly congrat-
ulate the complete successes achieved by the two
important sessions.
At a democratic consultative meeting held before the
two sessions by the CPC central leadership with
personages from all fields, Hu Yaobang, general
secretary of the CPC Central Committee, put forward
12 Chinese characters meaning "never forget unity
and strive to build a strong China." This is a great
mission that history vests in us. It represents the
common desire of the people of all nationalities
throughout the country and the fundamental interest
of the Chinese people. Over the past five years, we
have created a good situation in which the people have
united and worked hard by setting things to rights and
overcoming demerits and developing advantages, and
have begun the great cause of making China a strong
nation. From beginning to end, the first session of the
Sixth NPC and the first session of the Sixth CPPCC
have been filled with an atmosphere of democracy and
unity and have embodied a spirit of seeking unceasing
progress. The sessions manifest the great unity of the
1 billion people of our nation and the vigorous politi-
cal situation in our country. The success of the two
sessions will further arouse the enthusiasm of the
people of all nationalities throughout the country and
personages in all fields of our society. They will play
an important role in promoting the socialist modern-
ization drive in our country.
The Chinese nation has a strong centripetal force and
a strong coagulative force. The Chinese people have a
strong urge for improvement and strong zest for their
cause. Precisely because of this, in our history over the
past thousands of years, our nation can overcome
division and maintain unification and can develop
continuously by surmounting various difficulties. Af-
ter the victory of the new democratic revolution led by
the CPC, a new chapter began in the history of the
Chinese nation. Although we have experienced a
tortuous course over the past 30 years and more, our
achievements are still unprecedented as compared
with any historical period. We are now standing at a
new starting point. The situation of stability and unity
in China is irreversible. The great cause of reunifica-
tion is irreversible. The prosperity of China is also
irreversible. We must further consolidate the great
unity of the people of all nationalities throughout the
country, further develop and strengthen the patriotic
united front, and promote the realization of the
objective of the peaceful reunification of the mother-
land. We must continue to carry forward the enter-
prising spirit, work hard, handle affairs in a down-to-
earth and realistic manner, and ensure the smooth
development of our socialist modernization drive.
During the five-year tenure of the Sixth NPC, we will
fulfill the Sixth Five-Year Plan and begin the Seventh
Five-Year Plan. Those will be the five years vital to
our modernization process. By doing a good job in
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these five years, we will successfully fulfill the work of
laying a foundation in the first 10 years ending in
1990 and will create more favorable conditions for the
planned economic upsurge in the second 10 years. As
deputies pointed out in their discussions, the targets
for the next five years are positive and are also
realizable through efforts. The recent NPC session
has earnestly summed up the basic experience of the
past five years and has laid down a more positive
guideline for economic work. We will resolutely focus
all economic work on the attainment of better eco-
nomic results, will adhere to the realistic principle of
developing construction steadily and surely, and will
ensure a healthy development of the national economy
at a steady speed so as to gain real benefits for the
people. Now, our national economy as a whole has
moved onto the path of healthy development and the
conditions for speeding up the reforms have gradually
become ripe. The overall situation is excellent.
Of course, the better the situation, the more sober our
minds must be. "A car may go smoothly on a steep
slope but overturn on a flat road, because the driver is
cautious in times of difficulty and becomes careless
when the situation is smooth." On this point, Premier
Zhao has made repeated cautions in his government
work report. We must work cautiously and conscien-
tiously and must have an overall viewpoint and take
into consideration the overall interests. We must be
determined to overcome the problem of overdecentra-
lization of funds and to concentrate our strength on
gearing up the key construction projects with a bear-
ing to the future of our modernization program. We
must strive to improve economic results and ensure
the steady growth in the national economy in the next
five years.
Socialist modernization is a cause of the millions of
people. In order to realize the targets for the next five
years, it is necessary to mobilize the strength of the
people of all nationalities throughout the country, and
members of the NPC must join hands with all
democratic parties and people with lofty ideals in all
fields. The tasks listed in the government work report
for the next five years not only represent the people's
interests and aspirations, but also include the people's
ideas and embody their wisdom. The issues mentioned
by the report, such as the issue of concentrating funds
to ensure key construction, the issue of carrying out
economic structural reform, and the issue of exploit-
ing intellectual resources, are all matters with which
the people are concerned and are matters that have
been frequently discussed at NPC sessions and other
meetings in recent years. The people's proposals and
critical opinions about these matters have been
changed into effective and feasible measures by the
government after thorough consideration, and these
measures have been or will be put into practice. This
is a prominent new characteristic of the government
work report approved by the recent NPC session. This
once again vividly proves that our government re-
spects and represents the will of the people. A govern-
ment representing the people's interest is inevitably an
authoritative government. It can be believed that
Premier Zhao's government work report will greatly
mobilize and inspire the people of all nationalities
throughout the country. Workers, peasants, and intel-
lectuals will go in for the building of material civiliza-
tion and socialist spiritual civilization with higher
consciousness. Our work in all fields in the next five
years will be more successful than in the previous five
years.
The lasting stability and peace of our nation is a
precondition and a guarantee for the smooth develop-
ment of the modernization drive. Our socialist democ-
racy and the building of the legal system have made
marked progress. The 36 laws adopted by the Fifth
NPC and its Standing Committee, especially the
formulation and promulgation last year of the new
Constitution, have ensured that the political life of the
state and of our people is governed by laws and will
proceed healthily. We must mobilize all our strength
to guarantee the implementation of the Constitution
in all fields and must continuously strengthen socialist
democracy and step up the building of a legal system.
The fundamental law still requires a whole set of
concrete laws to guarantee its implementation. In this
field, there is still a great deal of work that we must
properly handle. Developing socialist democracy and
perfecting a socialist legal system is our long-term
task and calls for our unremitting efforts to ensure the
effective implementation of the Constitution and oth-
er laws in our country's political life and all aspects of
our social life.
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Our socialist motherland is becoming strong and
prosperous due to the hard work of our millions of
people. Let every one of us contribute his own wisdom
and strength and bring credit to our socialist country.
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