BEIJING, Feb 26 Kyodo The Chinese...

BEIJING, Feb 26 Kyodo

The Chinese Communist Party forward Wednesday prepared the name list and agenda for the upcoming yearly sitting of the country's legislative assembly.

individual hundred and ninety-one legislative delegates from in every part the country are owing to gather in the capital for the 10th National People's Congres (NPC) from March 5 to 18

The focus of the NPC will be a changing of the guard, with Party Secretary Hu Jintao owing to replace Jiang Zemin as national president and Zhu Rongji awaited to pass the premiership to Wen Jiabao.

Vice Prime Minister Wu Bangguo is station to replace Li Peng as NPC chairman.

While China's tightly knit leadership circle cites the NPC as a democratic forum that allows input into national governance from the wider populace, real power remains within the party core.

Hu's rise to the presidency is awaited following his replacement of Jiang as party head at the Chinese Communist Party's pivotal 16th congres in November last year.

The NPC gathering will succeed the ''spirit'' of the November party congres through focusing on maintaining economic construction as the core of national policy and making efforts to make experiment of and close China's widening affluence gap, according to the official Xinhua freshs Agency.

The legislative gathering will also focus forward improving China's nascent social security rule and address the issue of unemployment Xinhua reported, without referring explicitly to China's rapidly rising jobless

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