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Hu stresses stability, unity in Tibet

BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao stressed the necessity to promote development and stability in Tibet when he joined a panel discussion with deputies of the National People’s Congress (NPC) from the Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday.

“We must reinforce the solid Great Wall for combating separatism and safeguarding national unity, so as to promote a long-term stability in the region,” said Mr. Hu.

The President said Tibet authorities must implement the central government’s policies, focus on development and stability, attain an economic great leap forward, safeguard “national security” and “social stability” and keep improving people’s living standard.

“Tibet should stick to the development road with Chinese and Tibetan features so as to strengthen the material foundation of the building of socialistic new Tibet, improve people’s life and let people of all ethnics share the fruit of development,” he said.

Meanwhile, top legislator Wu Bangguo said China would never copy the political system of Western countries. He called on lawmakers to maintain the correct political orientation with the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as the core.

“We must draw on the achievements of all cultures, including their political achievements; but we will never simply copy the Western model,” said Mr. Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), in a work report at the annual NPC session.

The top legislator discussed the “essential differences” between the people’s congress, or the fundamental political system of China, and the political system of Western capitalist countries.

China adopted a system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC, not a Western-style multiparty system, which enabled different parties to come into power in turn through elections, according to Mr. Wu.

Being the ruling party, the CPC is at the core of the country’s leadership, while other parties (known as democratic parties) are participating parties. The People’s Congress has no congressional party groups. — Xinhua

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