The Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress Held a Preparatory Meeting

(Express delivery of the two sessions) The third session of the 13th National People's Congress held a preparatory meeting

　　China News Agency, Beijing, May 22-The third session of the 13th National People's Congress held a preparatory meeting on the evening of the 21st in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Chairman Li Zhanshu of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress chaired the meeting. The meeting elected the Bureau and Secretary-General of the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress, and voted to approve the agenda of the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress.

　　Li Zhanshu announced that the third session of the Thirteenth National People ’s Congress was held on May 22, 2020, and all preparations for the congress have been completed.

　　Li Zhanshu pointed out that the guiding ideology of the Third Session of the 13th National People ’s Congress is: to follow Xi Jinping ’s new era socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics as a guide to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Party and the Second, Third, and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 19th National Congress To strengthen the "four consciousnesses", to strengthen the "four self-confidences", to achieve the "two safeguards", to adhere to the party's leadership, the people are the masters of the country, to govern the country in accordance with the law, and to unify the country, closely surrounding the overall work of the party and the state, and earnestly implement the Constitution Fulfilled all the tasks of the conference successfully, and turned the conference into a democratic, united, pragmatic and progressive conference, mobilizing people of all ethnic groups in the country to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core. Pioneering and enterprising, solid work, to ensure the completion of the decisive battle and the goal of overcoming poverty, to build a well-off society in an all-round way, and strive to achieve the goal of "two hundred years" and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　The preparatory meeting voted to elect the Bureau and Secretary General of the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress. The presidium of the conference is composed of 174 people, and Wang Chen is the secretary general of the conference.

　　According to the meeting agenda adopted by the vote, the third session of the 13th National People's Congress will consider the government work report, review the implementation of the 2019 national economic and social development plan and the report of the 2020 national economic and social development plan, and the 2020 national economic and social development plan. Draft development plan, review the implementation of the central and local budgets in 2019 and the report on the draft central and local budgets for 2020, and the draft central and local budgets for 2020 ) ", Consider the motion of the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress on deliberation of the“ Decision of the National People ’s Congress on Establishing and Improving the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanism for the Maintenance of National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Draft) ”, and review the work of the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress Report, review the work report of the Supreme People's Court, review the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, etc.

　　At the beginning of the meeting, Li Zhanshu said that on the evening of May 20, NPC deputy Wan Weixing passed away due to ineffective medical treatment. In the name of the General Assembly, let us express our deep condolences for the unfortunate death of Wan Xingxing.

　　The 13th National People's Congress currently has 2,956 representatives. As of May 20th, 2902 delegates had reported to the conference secretariat. On the 21st, the preparatory meeting was attended by 2,889 people and 67 were absent. The number of participants was in accordance with the quorum.

　　Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wang Chen, Cao Jianming, Zhang Chunxian, Shen Yueyue, Ji Bingxuan, Alec Gimba, Wan Exiang, Chen Zhu, Wang Dongming, Bai Machilin, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, Wu Weihua , Secretary General Yang Zhenwu attended the meeting. (Finish)