CHINESE Vice-Premier Qian Qichen yesterday urged the Preliminary Working Committee (PWC) to review its inadequacies.
His comment followed calls from PWC members for greater openness in the powerful Preparatory Committee.
Mr Qian, the PWC chairman, made the call at the start of the body's sixth and final plenary session. It will now be disbanded and the Preparatory Committee will be formed early next year.
'I hope we will be able to use this opportunity to take on board your own experience to fully review the work experience and inadequacies of the PWC,' he told members at the Great Hall of the People.
Forty-six submissions have been compiled by the PWC's five sub-groups since it was established in mid-1993 at the height of the ill-fated Sino-British negotiations on constitutional reform.
Their findings, some controversial, will form the basis for the Preparatory Committee's preparations for the Special Administrative Region.
Mr Qian was confident the PWC's conclusions would help lay a sound foundation for the committee.