January is the season for local legislative sessions in China, the month that city and district NPC and CPPCC bodies meet to discuss proposals for the upcoming year.
Media blogger aside assembled a list of some of the more interesting proposals brought up at Beijing’s sessions:
- Proposal to set up women-only subway cars
- Proposal for the army arts troupes to do more on the capital’s stages
- Proposal to resume floating train ticket prices during the Spring Festival rush
- Proposal for collective management of street vendors
- Proposal to resolve the economic losses brought to fruit farmers by birds
- Proposal to change the name of Beijing Subway’s Yong’anli Station to Silk Street Station as soon as possible
- Recommendation for a complete ban on dog raising
- Proposal to strengthen Beijing’s municipal manhole-cover design
- Recommendation to restore Comrade Hua Guofeng’s calligraphic inscription at the Miyun Reservoir
- Proposal to change “out of season uniforms”
- Recommendation to add a Beijing TV station for the disabled
- Proposal for standardized management of shanzhai culture
- Proposal to improve young people’s education in the core values of socialism
- Proposal to further differentiate “push” and “pull” on doors in public places
- Proposal to bar people with colds from driving
- Proposal to change the name of chengguan squads
- Proposal to advise the NPC and CPPCC to continue to take the lead in protecting the rights of police and prosecutors
Aside adds: Excerpted from the Beijing Two Meetings 2009 proposal list. Not verified by this blog.
Links and Sources
- Aside’s blog (Chinese): Selected member proposals
- CCTV (Chinese): 2009 local Two Meetings
- Last year on Danwei: Photographer fired after Tongzhou legislative sessions
- Earlier national CPPCCs on Danwei: Fun at the CPPCC (2006), The lighter side of the legislature (2005)