NPC to look into amending basic law

Next month's annual sessions of China's top legislature and political advisory body in Beijing appear set to lay solid foundations, in, at least, establishing guideline thoughts, strengthening the Party's leadership and rationalizing the institutional arrangement for national rejuvenation by adopting a series of constitutional amendments and a structural reform plan to revamp the Party and the State institutions.

The Communist Party of China Central Committee published its proposals to revise the Constitution on Sunday. Among the amendments, made necessary by the rapid growth beginning in 2004, when the Constitution was last amended, are the Party's key innovations in theories and practices since then - especially Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era - and a new national supervisory commission.

Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the 12th National People's Congress Standing Committee, said in the last session of the committee in Beijing on Saturday that the March session of the NPC, the top legislature, which will elect the 13th NPC Standing Committee, will be of great significance to the implementation of new era thought and the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, according to Xinhua News Agency.