CRI英语听力2012年03月合辑（文本）：0303WT.doc

1、The Fifth Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference, or CPPCC, the countrys top political advisory body, has opened in Beijing.Working for cultural reform, promoting social harmony, boosting exchanges across the Taiwan Strait and expanding intern

2、ational cooperation are topping the agenda of this years session.Wei Tong has more.While delivering a work report at the opening ceremony, Chinas top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, said the CPPCC would make giving impetus to scientific development the top priority when carrying out its duties, vigo

3、rously develop the real economy and maintain steady and robust economic development.We will coordinate democratic parties, industry federations and related organizations in making proposals and suggestions about major economic issues such as expanding domestic consumer demand and maintaining price s

4、tability; increasing guarantees for the supply of agricultural products; strengthening innovation, energy conservation and emission reductions and deepening reforms in fiscal, taxation, financial and other priority areas and key links. Jia Qinglin called promoting social harmony and stability a boun

5、den duty of the CPPCC, which mainly includes reforms on the income distribution system, development of the social credit rating system as well as supervision of food safety.Jia also pledged to promote cultural reform and development by taking advantage of the advisory bodys rich think tank with outs

6、tanding cultural talent as well as its substantial quantity of cultural resources. Other highlights that made the sessions top agenda include developing pragmatic exchanges with Taiwan, and getting its people, especially young ones, to identify more closely with the Chinese nation and culture. Whats

7、 more, Jia said developing friendly external relations with other nations would create a favorable external environment and conditions for Chinas further development. We will actively exchange high-level visits with foreign countries, strengthen and develop traditional friendships, increase mutual p

8、olitical trust with relevant countries, and strive to win the international communitys understanding of and support for Chinas concept of scientific, harmonious, peaceful, and cooperative development.More than 2,000 political advisors will discuss these major issues concerning the countrys developme

9、nt during the ten-day annual session.More than 6,000 proposals were deliberated during last years session, many of which were adopted and became the guiding principles for Chinas Twelfth Five-year Plan, which lasts from 2011 to 2015.Founded in 1949, the CPPCC consists of elite figures from Chinese s

10、ociety who are willing to serve the think tank for the government and for the legislative and judicial bodies.As an open forum where the ruling Communist Party of China, non-Communist parties and people with no party affiliation discuss state affairs freely and on an equal footing, the CPPCC is considered the manifestation of Chinas socialist democracy.For CRI, this is Wei Tong.