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Reform is urged for CPPCC selection

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A professor says the current system is cumbersome and a waste of resources

A Communist Party School professor has proposed making the nation's top advisory body more effective in supervising the government by reforming the system of selecting its representatives.

Shen Shiguguang suggested the current selection process was cumbersome and that many Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference delegates could not discharge the duty of democratic supervision entrusted to them by the government.

Professor Shen, who teaches in the party school of the Shanghai municipal party committee, made the claims in the Study Times, the official publication of the Central Chinese Communist Party School.

Because the CPPCC representatives were not elected democratically, many had no notion of openness, fairness and transparency, he wrote. Some were ill-qualified and lacked enthusiasm or a sense of responsibility in exercising democratic supervision.

Following a quota system purportedly representing the interests of all social groups, the nominations and bargaining behind the current selection process take more than six months before the list is sent to the CPPCC standing committee for approval.

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