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Proposals from the Beijing 2009 CPPCC session

Posted by Joel Martinsen on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 10:47 AM
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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.

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Propose changing the chengguan to "goon squads"

Posted by: LoveChinaLongTime | January 15, 2009 3:23 PM

re.:

Proposal to resolve the economic losses brought to fruit farmers by birds

. some people never learn.

Posted by: slowboat | January 15, 2009 7:18 PM

All proposals approved.

Posted by: Peteryang | January 16, 2009 8:39 AM

LoveChinaLongTime, you just insulted goon squads.

Posted by: Hui | January 17, 2009 3:27 AM

The Beijing Subway is dominated by this officialesque landscape in the Jing -- there is no way they'll change Yong'anli to the commercialesque Silk Street.

Women-only cars are good, though.

Posted by: David Feng | January 19, 2009 10:02 PM
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