China moves to amend constitution
By (Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-08 15:11

Chinese legislators began Monday to consider whether to specify the inviolability of private property in the nation's Constitution, and the draft constitutional amendment, if approved, would become what is widely described as "a historic progress."

Wang Zhaoguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), briefed nearly 3,000 lawmakers on the draft constitutional amendment at the on-going national legislature's annual session in the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing Monday afternoon.

The draft amendment includes expression on protection of private property and human rights.

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