China Politics Weekly No. 99- July 11, 2016

Party General Secretary; PRC

Said “the Chinese government welcomes the conduct of friendly exchanges and cooperation in China by foreign non-governmental organizations. Efforts are being made to facilitate their operation in China and protect their legitimate rights and interests through creating an enabling legislative environment.”

Ireland, Azerbaijan and Malta.

Goal is stronger, better, bigger SOEs.

Full text of his speech (in Chinese).

Meeting adopted a new regulation on accountability for Party officials. From Xinhua: “Party officials must be held responsible for serious consequences caused by their negligence or poor work performance, which undermines the Party’s governance and harms the people’s interests… In particular, the Party will hold officials accountable for failing to implement Party guidelines and policies as well as reform measures, to make sure the orders of the CPC Central Committee are passed through the ranks and carried out”.

Session focused on Party discipline and rooting out corruption. Secretary General of the Organization Department Gao Xuanmin gave a talk.

Xinhua: “Xi stressed that a serious, healthy and clean political environment within the CPC is crucial to the Party maintaining its vigor, advantages, creativity and unity over the past 95 years and is what distinguishes the CPC from non-Marxist parties.”

Meeting passed seven documents including ones on the NPC, the litigation system, ecological civilization pilot zones, the judicial supervision system and administrative pilots in Hainan.

Premier

Meeting focused on improving audits of public finances and promoting public-private partnerships (PPP).

Meeting approved in principle the Medium to Long Term Railway Network Development Plan, which will see a further 30,000 km of track added by 2020, of which 10,000 km will be high-speed rail. Meeting also focused on promoting economic growth in old revolutionary base areas in Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Full text of the Premier’s remarks in English.

Full text of the speech in English.

Chair of the

Session passed new Asset Appraisal Law; revised the Wild Animal Protection Law; adopted amendments to six laws (on energy conservation, water, flood prevention, occupational disease prevention and treatment, environmental impact assessments and navigation routes) that ease administrative approval for enterprises; ratified an amendment to Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Session also reviewed the draft Cybersecurity Law and a draft amendment of the Red Cross Society Law.

Chair of the Chinese People’s

Discussed promoting supply-side reforms.

Head of Party Secretariat; Head

Secretary of the Central

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