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DAR ES SALAAM， March 8 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania's ruling party， Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM)， begins its one week extraordinary meetings aimed at making major changes in its constitution and some of its standing regulations.
The series of meetings in the political capital Dodoma will climax on Sunday when the party convenes its extraordinary general congress， which is mandated to approve the changes.
Among the changes announced by CCM Chairman and Tanzanian President John Magufuli last year included not allowing a party member to hold more than one leadership post， be it within the party or outside.
This has already forced some changes within the party with some top leaders announcing their decision not to contest for leadership posts which they were holding now.
There are a number of CCM leaders who are currently holding two leadership positions either in the party or within the party and in the government.
The changes would force party wings to also amend their constitutions in order to align with the CCM constitution.
Under the proposed changes， the number of members of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) will be reduced from 388 to 158.
Also the number of members to the party's Central Committee (CC) has also been trimmed from 34 to 24.
Apart from those who will become CC members by virtue of their positions， there will be only six CC members to be elected by NEC， three from Mainland Tanzania and three from Zanzibar.
Earlier， CC comprised of not more than 14 members elected by NEC as well as not more than five members appointed by the national chairman.
The changes also seek to reduce the number of party official meetings.
Under the new arrangements， NEC will now meet after six months as opposed to four months under the current regime.
The extraordinary general congress is also expected to prepare and release a time table for the party elections to be conducted later this year.
by Xinhua writers Ren Liying， Zhou Yan
TANGSHAN， Hebei， July 22 (Xinhua) -- Wang Ying cherishes a photo from her teenage years. In the picture， she is wearing a track suit and a big smile.
"I was a straight-A student and a good basketball player，" said Wang， 68， in her home city of Tangshan， about 200 kilometers from Beijing.
As a teenager， she was captain of a youth basketball team that won gold at a championship in Hebei Province in the 1960s.
Like her peers， Wang was unable to go straight into university after she finished secondary school in 1966. The year marked the beginning of the 10-year Cultural Revolution， and the national college entrance exam was suspended.
Thanks to her athletic talent， Wang secured a job teaching physical education classes at a middle school in Tangshan. She soon married and had a daughter.
Her cozy nest fell apart when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake leveled Tangshan at 3:42 a.m. on July 28， 1976. The quake claimed more than 242，000 lives. About 7，200 entire families died in their sleep.
Wang， alert even in her sleep， got up in time to throw herself against a wardrobe as it was falling and threatening to hit her husband and their five-year-old daughter.
"I stood steadfast between the wardrobe and the bed and felt the furniture crushing my back... I was never able to stand up again，" Wang said Friday at her daughter's apartment in downtown Tangshan.
She was among 3，817 Tangshan earthquake survivors to be permanently confined to a wheelchair， and is one of 822 paraplegic survivors still alive.
Wang was grateful to be alive for her husband and daughter， but she considered suicide countless times， driven by fits of acute pain that tortured her once or twice an hour， and threatened to haunt her for the rest of her life.
The pain， known as phantom limb pain， is common in paraplegics and amputees. "I always had a towel at hand， and would bite it when the pain attacked."
In 2006， she underwent an operation on her numb legs that ended her pain. "It was on June 1， China's Children's Day，" she said. "When I woke up， I remembered clearly how I used t.
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