Anchor: China's political advisors have found that many proposals they put forward have contributed to the policy making process of the government. One of them shares with CRI his working experience as an advisor on national affairs. Yang Lei reports.

Reporter: As China pursues scientific development and a socialist democracy, the country's top advisory body has seen rising involvement in state affairs.

Over the past five years, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference put forward nearly 22,000 proposals on politics, economy, science and other issues.

Li Guo'an, a military officer attending the CPPCC meeting, says proposals and suggestions from the top advisory body have been taken seriously by respective departments.

"I am satisfied with the efficiency of the government. I visited different departments more than 30 times over the past 4 years. The ministries put emphasis on our suggestions, which made us proud of being an adviser on national affairs."

Li Guo'an plans to put forward 11 proposals this year, covering a variety of issues such as a system to help non-commissioned officers to transfer to civilian work, an effective method on booking train tickets and a policy to encourage the popularization of household green energy.

As a core function performed by the top advisory body, forming proposals regarding the government's strategies and the country's development is a major way in which its members participate in the political affairs of the country.

Li Guo'an says that over the years, the advisors have also explored new methods to further step up the implementation of their proposals. For example, national and CPPCC members sometimes hand in the same proposal to government units at different levels to ensure that it receives proper attention.

"The national advisers will contact ministries, while consultants at lower levels will get in touch with their respective government departments. We once had a same proposal about how to reduce traffic jam in cities. With our joint effort, the related departments quickly worked out the feasibility report as well as a preliminary plan."

But the political advisor says the government still has great potential in improving the capability of bringing the proposals into effect.

"The response time can be shorter and direct answers to the proposals are always expected."

Li Guo'an's view gained support from fellow CPPCC member Ye Jiannong, who is from the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, one of eight democratic parties in China.

"Usually they just give you answers, they always give you response. But it seems to me that sometimes I'm not very satisfactory, they just give you reason."

Ye Jiannong says the top adviory body works as a good machenism in assisting government policy-making process. And just as other machenisms, it needs to be improved steadily.

Yang Lei, CRI News