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New ministers appointed by NPC
By Liu Li (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-02 00:42
China's top legislature appointed new justice and labour and social security
ministers on Friday.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) appointed Wu
Aiying as Justice Minister, taking over from Zhang Fusen, while Tian Chengping
replaced Zheng Silin to become Minister of Labour and Social Security.
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Aiying | Wu, former vice-minister of justice,
became the only female minister in the Chinese cabinet after Vice-Premier Wu Yi
left the post of Health Minister in April.
Tian was former secretary of the Shanxi provincial committee of the Communist
Party of China (CPC).
Both the new ministers - predecessors, Zheng and Zhang, had reached
retirement and were relieved of their positions.
Zhang Baoshun, former governor of the Shanxi provincial government, has been
appointed to fill Tian's old post of Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial
Committee of the CPC.
Also at the 16th meeting of the 10th NPC Standing Committee, which closed on
Friday, treaties on criminal judicial assistance with Brazil and Latvia, and an
extradition treaty with the Philippines, were approved.
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| Tian Chengping | The treaty on criminal
judicial assistance between China and Brazil was signed by Chinese Foreign
Minister Li Zhaoxing in Beijing in May last year.
The treaty between China and Latvia was signed by Vice-Foreign Minister Dai
Bingguo in Beijing in April last year.
The extradition treaty was signed by then Chinese Foreign Minister Tang
Jiaxuan in Beijing in 2001.
According to Chinese law, a treaty concerning foreign affairs does not take
effect until it secures the approval of the NPC or its Standing Committee.
In another development, a draft of the property law will be made available
soon to invite advice from members of the public, the Standing Committee meeting
decided on Friday.
The draft will be further amended and resubmitted to the NPC Standing
Committee meeting in October and December for further discussion.
If all goes to plan, the final version of the draft law will be submitted to
the annual session of the NPC for approval next year.
However, submission of the draft to the annual session next year still
depends on approval from the Standing Committee at the end of this year, said
Wang Shengming, vice-director of the Commission of Legislative Affairs of the
NPC Standing Committee.
"Overseas citizens and enterprises in China will be protected by the law the
same as their Chinese counterparts," he told a press conference on Friday after
the closure of the Standing Committee meeting.
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