Extracts.
Government Solicits Public Suggestions for 10th
Five-Year Plan
The Chinese government Monday called on the country's
people in all walks of life to offer suggestions and
opinions for formulating the 10th Five-Year Plan
(2001-2005).
The move is aimed to encourage the public to
participate in the State's decision-making process
and increase transparency in the process, said Zeng
Peiyan, minister of the State Development Planning
Commission (SDPC), at a press conference.
The major participants in implementing the plan are
enterprises and individuals under the market economy,
so they have to recognize, know about, and take part
in the whole process of formulating the plan, Zeng
said.
Extensive public participation will not only help
give full play to the basic role of the market in
resources distribution, but also help promote
socialist democracy, he noted.
People can voice their opinions and suggestions on
such areas as farmers' income, township enterprises,
industrialization and information, high technology,
the service sector, the strategy to develop the
western areas, urbanization, eco-system and
environmental protection, sustainable development,
employment, social security system, non-public
economies, and education, etc.
The SDPC has also conducted cooperative studies on
certain subjects with international organizations
including the World Bank,and achieved positive
results, the official said.
To promote the activity, the SDPC will sponsor a wide
range of discussions in major Beijing-based
newspapers, open a website at www.sdpc.gov.cn., and
accept letters or E-mails directly, he said.
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Japan Welcomes Albright's Pyongyang Visit The Japanese government on Monday
welcomed a visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and expressed the hope that the
visit will have a good effect on Japan's talks on normalizing ties with the
DPRK.
"We welcome the continuation of positive developments" between the U.S. and
the DPRK, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa told a press
conference.
Tokyo and Pyongyang are scheduled to hold their next round of negotiations
on normalizing diplomatic ties later this month in Beijing.
Albright arrived in Pyongyang on Monday morning for a two-day historic
visit to the DPRK.
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