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Beijing will improve its legal system this year by enacting or
amending laws on land management, urban environment, pre-school
education, Chinese medicine, private economy development, budget
supervision, earthquake prevention and disaster relief.
All these are required to improve the health of the city in the
coming five years, said Zhang Jianmin, chairman of the Standing
Committee of the 11th Beijing Municipal People's Congress (BMPC)
Sunday, on the first session of the committee this year.
Zhang said people's deputies have been playing an increasing role
in the city's development.
Last year, the Standing Committee formulated or revised some key
local laws and regulations, including one on the Zhongguancun high-tech
park.
It also launched reviews of the city's existing laws and regulations,
examined the implementation of 27 of them and listened to 16 work
reports from the municipal government.
The committee furthermore demanded the municipal government take
concrete measures to ensure the quality of pork, on which consumers
have many complaints, and to ban smoking in public places.
Other significant actions included efforts to guarantee better
education in the mountainous area and protection of local museums
and science exhibition halls.
Proposals by BMPC members actually have helped local people live
a more comfortable life.
One case most welcomed by local residents was the renovation of
Chongwen District's Longtanxili residential quarter, where many
dwellers bid farewell to the time when three generations squeezed
into a single, 10-square-metre room.
All of the 1,609 proposals produced by BMPC deputies during the
third session of the 11th BMPC have been handled by municipal departments
(People's Daily 01/15/01)
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