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Hu rules out western models

By P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE, SEPT. 15. The Chinese President, Hu Jintao, today praised the country's people's congress system as a "natural choice" and said an uncritical adherence to the Western political systems would only "lead China to a dead end."

Mr. Hu was addressing a grand rally in Beijing to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's highest legislature. The Chairman of the NPC's Standing Committee, Wu Bangguo, presided over the rally, held at the Great Hall of the People.

The President, who is also the General Secretary of the governing Communist Party of China (CPC), hailed the people's congress system as a great invention that integrated the basic principles of Marxism with actual conditions.

Describing China's political model as a natural choice for social development since the advent of modern times, Mr. Hu said the system reflected "the common interests and aspirations of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups." Indeed, this system symbolised a significant achievement of the Chinese people under the CPC's leadership, he noted.

Tracing the history of China's political choices in modern times, including those made under the "bourgeois democratic revolution" that was led by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, Mr. Hu said the CPC finally and "logically came into the position to shoulder the historic mission of leading the Chinese people for the great change."

The people's congress system, which was set up under the CPC's auspices, laid the political foundation for China's socialist system, he pointed out. China, Mr. Hu emphasised, must stick to and improve the present system. Commending the socialist democratic politics under this model, he said the rule of law and the task of mobilising people for building "a relatively affluent society in an all-round way" should be persevered with.

's congress system, as the fundamental political system, fits China's special conditions by embodying China's socialist characteristics and representing Chinese people's right as the master of the country,'' said Mr. Hu. - AP

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