BEIJING: China’s top political advisory body has set up a new group focusing on the environment and natural resources, a move that an expert said reflected the inclusive, extensive and diverse characteristics of this major national body.
The new group has 85 members, making it the ninth-largest of the 34 participating groups in a list issued on Wednesday of members of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which will open its first session in Beijing on March 4 at which a new chairman of the CPPCC National Committee will be elected.
The list was approved at a session of the Standing Committee of the 13th CPPCC National Committee, which concluded on Tuesday. The newly launched group focusing on the environment and natural resources includes Party and government officials, including Huang Runqiu, the minister of ecology and environment, as well as experts and scholars in the field.
Shi Taifeng, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, said that the membership of the 14th CPPCC National Committee meets the organization’s requirements as “the most extensive patriotic united front organization and an important channel for consultative democracy in the new era”.
Speaking on Monday at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th CPPCC National Committee, he said that the membership list is “widely representative” and basically covers people who need to participate in the CPPCC in all fields and aspects.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
