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15:07, December 26, 2007 |
The first non-Communist party cabinet minister since the late 1970s, Wan was elected the Zhi Gong Dang Central Committee chairman last Friday. The 55-year-old minister, an automobile engineer, has worked with Audi Corporation in Germany and was president of Shanghai''s Tongji University before assuming the science and technology portfolio.
Health Minister Chen Zhu, 54, is a Paris-trained scientist and has no political party affiliation. The white paper on China''s political party system, released in November, says a key aspect of the multi-party cooperation system under the leadership of the CPCis that non-Communist party members can take leadership positions in the government.
By the end of last year, 31,000 non-Communist party members and non-affiliated people held government posts at or above the county level. They are in posts with decision-making powers and the power to nominate and remove personnel.
Since the First Session of the 10th NPC four years ago, 177,000 non-communist and non-affiliated individuals have been elected as deputies to people''s congresses, including seven who have served as vice-chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee.
CAPD former chairman Xu Jialu says it''s "a manifestation of the CPC''s sincerity and determination" to "promote and deepen" the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the CPC leadership. Almost all non-Communist leaders have vowed in their online interviews to build their parties into more vigorous units in order to play a bigger role in China''s future.
One notable development is that the newly elected central committees'' members of the non-Communist parties are getting younger, with 50 being the average age of the 209-member central committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, three years less than the last central committee''s in 2002.
The average age of the 265-member China Democratic League (CDL) central committee members is 49, while that of the 225-member Jiu San Society central committee is 50. What''s more, half of CDL central committee members are doctorates.
The new office-bearers are young, energetic leaders with good academic backgrounds and have a strong desire to participate in State affairs, says You Luoping. As leaders, they will better reflect the opinions of the people they represent and help non-communist parties play a better participatory role in Chinese politics.
Source:Xinhua
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