Truth-seeking pragmatism at heart of CPPCC's role

The First Plenary Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference closed on Thursday, with 5,360 proposals received from its 2,158 members, covering a wide range of issues in such fields as politics, the economy, culture and ecology.

Most of the proposals are solution-oriented, which points to the nature of the CPPCC National Committee as the country's top political advisory body and the focus of China's political system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation.

With Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and other theoretical innovations written into the Constitution, the CPPCC National Committee, which comprises political advisors from various political parties, people's organizations and of all ethnic groups, has been endowed with a historic mission to put forward proposals on how the wisdom and energy of the entire nation can be harnessed to realize the two centenary goals: The mission to build China into a moderately prosperous society by the year 2021, which is the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, and build China into a prosperous, democratic, culturally-advanced, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern country by the year 2049, which marks the 100th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.