Jia Qinglin, chairman of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), presides over the closing ceremony of the Third Session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 13, 2010. (Xinhua/Li Tao)

The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, began the closing ceremony of its annual session here Saturday morning.

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the closing ceremony.

Top Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang were present at the ceremony.

The meeting elected Edmund Ho Hau Wah, former chief executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), as Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, with 2,057 of the 2,113 political advisors present at the meeting voting for him.

It also adopted the work report of the Standing Committee of the 11th CPPCC National Committee over the past year, and the report on how suggestions and proposals from CPPCC members were handled since the last session.

By 2 p.m. on March 7, a total of 1,987 members of the 11th CPPCC National Committee had submitted 5,430 proposals on China's economic, political, cultural and social development, and environmental protection, among other issues.

According to the report on the handling of proposals, the political advisors attached great importance to China's economic development, people's well-being, and the country's social harmony and stability.

They raised 836 proposals on accelerating the transformation of China's economic growth pattern and its economic restructuring, 489 on strengthening and improving macro control of the economy, 338 on coordination of regional economy, and 506 on farmers and agricultural and rural development.