(Authorized by the two sessions) Work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 31st, by wire
Work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Zhanshu
Representatives:
Entrusted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, I report to the General Assembly for review.
Main work since the Second Session of the 13th NPC
More than a year since the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress, it has been extremely difficult and extraordinary in the history of our country. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core controls great struggles, great projects, great undertakings, great dreams, bravely stands up to the tide, acts as an act, effectively responds to major challenges, resists major risks, solves major problems, and promotes the cause of the party and the country New major progress has been made. After the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core made epidemic prevention and control a top priority. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally directed and deployed himself, insisting on putting people ’s lives and health in the first place and leading the entire party The people of all ethnic groups in the whole army of the country lay down the people's war, the overall war, and the war of prevention and control of the epidemic situation. After arduous and arduous efforts, the defensive battles in Wuhan and Hubei achieved decisive results. The epidemic prevention and control blockade achieved major strategic achievements, and coordinated efforts to promote epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development have achieved positive results. This once again embodies the powerful guidance of Xi Jinping ’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and demonstrates the outstanding leadership capabilities of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, courageous determination, piloting direction, and steering ahead, highlighting the leadership of the Communist Party of China and China. The distinctive advantages of the characteristic socialist system highlight the heroic spirit of the Chinese children who are constantly striving to overcome themselves, dare to overcome all difficulties without being succumbed to any difficulties, grow up in tribulation, and rise from tribulation.
Since the outbreak, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has firmly implemented the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment, acted quickly and performed its duties in accordance with the law, made a decision on the comprehensive prohibition of illegal wildlife trade and consumption, prevent public health security risks, and promote the progress of social civilization. To adapt to the requirements of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and in accordance with the new situation and new issues in the field of public health, we will deploy and initiate legislative amendments to strengthen the public health rule of law guarantee system to build a line of defense for the protection of people's health and safety. Respond to social concerns, proactively publicize and interpret the epidemic prevention and control laws, and provide legal support for epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.
For more than a year, the Standing Committee has seriously exercised legislative, supervisory, decision-making, appointment and dismissal rights, and reviewed a total of 48 draft laws and draft decisions, and adopted 34 of them, including 5 enacted laws, 17 amended laws, and related legal issues. 12 major decisions and major issues; listened to and reviewed 39 reports, checked the implementation of 6 laws, conducted 3 special enquiries, 7 special investigations, and made 1 resolution; decided to approve 5 bilateral treaties; reviewed and approved 38 appointments and dismissals In addition, 282 staff members of state organs have been appointed and removed according to law, and various work has achieved new progress and new results.
1. Ensure that the Constitution is fully implemented in all aspects of governance
The Constitution is the fundamental law of the country and a concentrated expression of the will of the party and the people. To govern the country according to law must first adhere to governing the country according to the constitution.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the Standing Committee made a decision regarding the award of the National Medal and National Honorary Title. 36 outstanding individuals who have established outstanding merits and 6 international friends who have made outstanding contributions to promoting exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries. This is the first time since the implementation of the current Constitution to concentrate on awarding national medals. After making a decision to grant amnesty to some criminals serving sentences, President Xi Jinping signed and issued an amnesty order. After strict legal procedures, a total of 23,593 criminals serving nine types of sentences were pardoned. This is another major practice of the pardon system stipulated by the Constitution.
Carrying out the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Party, the Standing Committee heard and reviewed the report of the State Council on the maintenance of national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In accordance with the Constitution and the relevant provisions of the Hong Kong Basic Law, it studied and formulated and reviewed The Decision of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanism for the Maintenance of National Security (Draft) "was decided to be submitted to this meeting for consideration. This is a major move to uphold and improve the "one country, two systems" system, uphold the rule of law in Hong Kong, and maintain the constitutional order of the Special Administrative Region determined by the Constitution and the Basic Law. It is in the fundamental interests of all Chinese people, including Hong Kong compatriots. I believe that through the joint efforts of the representatives, we will be able to successfully complete this important legislative task and provide a more powerful guarantee of the rule of law to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, ensure Hong Kong ’s long-term prosperity and stability.
Conduct constitutional review and filing review in accordance with law. Formulate implementation opinions on advancing the review of constitutionality, properly respond to concerns related to constitutional issues, rectify unconstitutional and illegal normative documents according to law, and ensure that the Constitution is effectively observed and enforced. Improve regulations and judicial interpretation filing review mechanisms, build a unified filing review information platform that covers the whole country, and initially build a national database of laws and regulations. Hearing the report on the review and record work for 3 consecutive years and making it public. In 2019, 1995 administrative regulations, local regulations, and judicial interpretations were filed and filed. 33 local laws of special administrative regions were filed and 138 were reviewed and handled by citizens and organizations. After review, the urging organs were urged to correct 506 normative documents that were inconsistent, inconsistent or unsuitable with the constitutional laws and spirits, and maintained the unity, dignity and authority of the national legal system.
Carry out constitution publicity and education activities. Organized six constitutional swearing-in ceremonies, 18 appointed persons took the oath, and the members of the chairman's meeting presided over and supervised the oath, enhancing the constitutional concept of the state staff. With the theme of "promoting the spirit of the Constitution and advancing the modernization of the country's governance system and governance capabilities", the sixth National Constitution Day symposium was held to drive various levels of constitutional publicity activities. A symposium to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region was held to promote the publicity and implementation of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy, the Constitution and the Basic Law.
2. Continuously improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics
Keeping abreast of the rule of law in an all-round way, insisting on the simultaneous development of reform and abolition, insisting on equal emphasis on quality and efficiency, strengthening legislation in important areas, and constantly improving the level of scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and legislative legislation.
Cooperate with and promote comprehensive deepening reforms to ensure that major reforms are based on the law. After the foreign investment law was passed, the construction law, fire protection law, electronic signature law, urban and rural planning law, vehicle and ship tax law, trademark law, anti-unfair competition law, and administrative licensing law were revised in a package to complete the connection of relevant laws; the investment protection law of compatriots in Taiwan was revised To ensure that the reform achievements benefit Taiwan compatriots simultaneously. Examine the draft of the City Maintenance and Construction Tax Law, Deed Tax Law, and Export Control Law, and make a decision authorizing the State Council to temporarily adjust and apply the relevant laws and regulations in the free trade pilot zone, and authorize the Macao Special Administrative Region to exercise jurisdiction over the Hengqin Port Australian Port Area and related extension areas Decision in response to the rule of law of the times and reforms. Authorize the State Council to temporarily adjust and apply the relevant provisions of the Land Management Law, Seed Law, and Maritime Law in the Hainan Free Trade Pilot Zone, and support Hainan to build a free trade pilot zone and a free trade port with Chinese characteristics. After four revisions, the Securities Law has adhered to the legislative direction of advancing reforms, protecting investors ’rights and strengthening supervision, and confirmed the achievements of reforms such as the registration system to provide rule of law protection for capital market reform and healthy development.
Implement the new development concept and promote high-quality development with high-quality legislation. Formulate resource tax laws, amend the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes, and the Forest Law, and integrate the concepts of ecological priority, green development, and harmonious coexistence between man and nature into legislation at multiple dimensions and levels. Draft and review the draft law on the protection of the Yangtze River, implement the concept of "grasping the great protection and not carrying out major development", and protect the mother river of the Yangtze River with legal weapons and the rule of law. Review the draft amendments to the Copyright Law, increase efforts to crack down on infringements and illegal acts, and strengthen intellectual property protection. Amend the Land Management Law and the Urban Real Estate Management Law, insist on the bottom line position and the direction of the amendment of the farmers ’interests to only add and not subtract, to provide institutional guarantee for revitalizing land resources, increasing farmers’ property income, strengthening cultivated land protection, and promoting the integration of urban and rural development.
Take the people's longing for a better life as the goal of the struggle and speed up the legislation in the field of people's livelihood. The formulation of the basic medical hygiene and health promotion law has provided legal protection for the maintenance of people's health in all directions and throughout the cycle. Amend the Drug Administration Law to promote the resolution of problems such as counterfeit medicines, inferior medicines, high medicine prices, and shortages of medicines, which have been strongly expressed by the people. Formulate a vaccine management law to add a "security lock" for vaccine development, production, distribution, and vaccination. Summarize the experience of the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, in accordance with the requirements of strengthening the public health rule of law guarantee system, formulate and implement a special legislative amendment plan, set up a special work class, make overall arrangements for 30 legislative amendment projects, and strive to complete within 1 to 2 years Most legislative tasks. Review the revised draft of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law and strengthen the monitoring and early warning of animal epidemic sources. Draft and review a draft biosecurity law, and strive to develop a law to prevent biological risks, promote the development of biotechnology, and support the national biosafety system.
Focusing on the construction of national systems and national governance systems, strengthen legislation in the fields of supervision, justice, social governance, and national security. Deepen the reform of the national supervisory system, make a decision on the National Supervisory Commission to formulate supervisory regulations, and review the draft law on public officials' administrative sanctions. Formulate the Community Correction Law, review the revised draft of the Law on the Protection of Minors and the Law on the Prevention of Minor Crimes, and make a decision to abolish the relevant laws and regulations on the education of accommodation, and better adapt to the requirements of social governance in the new era. Amend the Judge Law and Prosecutor Law, make a decision on authorizing the pilot work of streamlining and streamlining the reform of civil proceedings, and consolidate and deepen the reform of the judicial system. Formulate a cryptographic law, review the revised draft of the archives law, and improve the legal system governing related fields.
The draft civil code submitted to this conference for deliberation is a landmark and significant achievement in the construction of the rule of law in my country. On the basis of the work of the previous session, the Standing Committee of the current session accelerated the compilation of the Civil Code. In August 2018, the draft of each sub-series was reviewed as a whole, and then the sub-units were reviewed several times, and the complete draft of the Civil Code was reviewed 7 times. Publicly solicited opinions, and collected more than 900,000 opinions from various parties. After repeated revisions and meticulous elaboration, a total of 7,260 draft civil codes have been formed. I believe that after careful deliberation by all representatives, a civil code with Chinese characteristics, embodying the spirit of the times, reflecting the wishes of the people, protecting civil rights, and safeguarding social fairness and justice will surely be worked out.
The legislative work of the past year has given us important enlightenment. This is: Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. Legislative work must adapt to the new requirements of the development of the party and the state. Always adhere to the people as the center and ensure that the party ’s claims pass the legal process. Be the national will. It is necessary to reflect the new experience and new achievements of reform and opening up in a timely manner, adhere to the convergence and unification of legislative decision-making and reform decision-making, enhance the timeliness, systematization, pertinence and effectiveness of laws, and constantly improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics.
3. Promoting supervision work in accordance with legal responsibilities around major reform and development tasks
Adhere to correct and effective supervision, focus on the proper exercise of administrative, supervisory, judicial and prosecutorial powers in accordance with the law, pay attention to the urgent and difficult issues that people are worried about, let more reforms and developments achieve fairer benefits to all people, and better support economic and social development and Reform tough tasks.
Carry out plan and budget supervision in accordance with law. Hearing reports on the review of the implementation of the national economic and social development plan and budget implementation, put forward more than 300 suggestions and suggestions around the implementation of the main indicators, key tasks and improving the performance of capital use, helping to fight the three major battles and do a good job of "six stability" jobs. Hearing the review of the 2018 central budget implementation and other financial revenue and expenditure audit work reports, and reports on the rectification of problems found in the audit, and urged relevant departments to strictly implement financial laws and regulations, and further rectify problems.
Promoting the focus of NPC budget review and supervision to expand expenditure budgets and policies, and strengthening state-owned assets management and supervision are two important responsibilities endowed by the Party Central Committee to the NPC. In accordance with the requirements of “full-caliber review and supervision of the whole process”, the Standing Committee formulated opinions on further strengthening the supervision of the standing committees of people ’s congresses at all levels on the rectification of outstanding problems identified by the audit, and promoted the implementation of the Party Central Committee ’s decision-making in budget preparation and budget execution . Focusing on the implementation of fiscal policy, departmental budget execution, transfer payment issuance, local government bond issuance and use, pollution prevention policy measures and fiscal capital arrangements, continued tracking and supervision, organized a total of 25 special investigations, listened to 35 reports, and carried out 4 During the special topic review, 9 special funds were reviewed, which further strengthened the review and supervision of financial fund performance and policy implementation effects. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have formulated implementation opinions to promote the local people's congresses to implement reform measures that focus on budget review and supervision to expand to expenditure budgets and policies. In accordance with the objectives of comprehensive standardization, openness and transparency, and strong supervision, we formulated a five-year plan for state-owned asset management and supervision, reviewed the 2018 comprehensive report on state-owned asset management and the national special report on the state-owned assets management, and promoted the deepening and expansion of state-owned asset management and supervision. Improve quality and efficiency. Promote local governments to extend the state-owned asset management reporting system to district-based cities and autonomous prefectures.
Do a solid job of special work supervision. Hear and review the State Council on the management of physician teams and the implementation of the Law on Practicing Physicians, the reform and development of pre-school education, the promotion of social assistance, the development of rural industries, the reform of the rural collective property rights system, the development of cultural industries, the acceleration of the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, tax cuts and fees, financial 11 special work reports, such as the allocation and use of eco-environmental protection funds, the environmental status of 2018 and 2019 and the completion of environmental protection goals, promote the resolution of outstanding issues involving the vital interests of the people, and help supply-side structural reforms and high-quality economic development. Carrying out 7 special investigations including poverty alleviation, actions to promote borders and enrich the people in ethnic areas, prevention and mitigation of systemic financial risks, population aging, pension insurance fund management and reform, implementation of the National Security Law, reform of the supervisory system, and implementation of the supervisory law, and proposed strengthening And suggestions for improvement.
Strengthen the supervision of judicial work. After hearing and reviewing the report on the resolution of the “difficulty in implementation” by the people ’s courts in 2018, we will strengthen the follow-up supervision in 2019 and specifically listen to the report on the review of the opinions of the members of the Standing Committee to consolidate the results of the basic solution to the difficulty of implementation. Hear and review the report on the strengthening of the criminal trial work, and promote the reform of the criminal litigation system centered on trial. Hear and review the report on the development of public interest litigation procuratorial work and conduct special inquiries to promote the procuratorial organs to perform their legal duties to safeguard the national and social public interests.
Conduct law enforcement inspections in accordance with the law. Improve the work mechanism, methods and methods of law enforcement inspection, carry out inspections one by one against legal provisions, and promote relevant parties to strictly implement the legal system and statutory duties. Check the implementation of 6 laws including the SME Promotion Law, the Water Pollution Prevention Law, the Higher Education Law, the Employment Promotion Law, the Renewable Energy Law, and the Fisheries Law, in conjunction with the review of law enforcement inspection reports for the SME Promotion Law and the Water Pollution Prevention Law Special inquiries. In the four law enforcement inspections, including the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law, third-party assessment was introduced to improve the scientificity, objectivity, and authority of the inspection. Actively explore new forms and methods for evaluating the implementation of laws, carry out post-legislative evaluations of the SME Promotion Law, the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law, and the Product Quality Law, form a closed loop for legislative decision-making, system design, law implementation, and effect feedback, improve legislation and supervision Work quality.
4. Comprehensively strengthen the construction of the work system and mechanism for supporting and serving representatives to perform their duties according to law
The NPC deputies are members of the highest organ of state power. Respecting the rights of representatives means respecting the rights of the people, and ensuring that representatives perform their duties according to law is to ensure that the people are the masters of the country. To this end, the Standing Committee has formulated 35 specific measures on strengthening and improving the work of NPC deputies to better support and ensure that deputies perform their duties according to law.
Seriously handle representative proposals and suggestions. During the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress, the proposals and suggestions put forward by the representatives were reviewed by the special committee of the National People's Congress in accordance with the law. The relevant undertaking units insisted on giving equal attention to the results and the process. Processing status and results. The 491 deputies' bills submitted for consideration by the Bureau have been completed. Among them, 12 legislative items related to 27 bills have been reviewed and approved, 9 legislative items related to 56 bills have been submitted for consideration, and 65 legislative items related to 191 bills have been reviewed Include in legislative planning or plan. The 8160 proposals were handed over to 193 undertaking units and responded to the representatives. The issues raised were resolved or planned to be resolved gradually, accounting for 71.3% of the total. The 22 key supervision suggestions identified, involving 276 representative suggestions, were supervised by 7 special committees, which promoted the resolution of a number of practical problems. Carefully handled the 560 comments and suggestions made by the representatives during the intersessional period, including 210 directly submitted by the representatives, 63 transmitted by the members of the chairman committee, 10 transmitted by the members of the standing committee, and 277 submitted by the representatives during the standing committee.
Give play to the role of representatives in legislative work. Study and determine the legislative items based on the proposal of the representative ’s proposal, and invite the representative to directly participate in the research, drafting, argumentation, review, and evaluation of the draft law. Comprehensive and basic important draft laws are issued to all representatives for comments, and strong professional draft laws are issued to representatives of relevant professions or fields for comments.
Strengthen the contact between the Standing Committee and the representatives. Improve the mechanism for standing committee members to contact representatives, and promote special committees, working committees and representatives to strengthen contact. The members of the Standing Committee contact representatives through various forms to unblock the channels for reflecting the situation and listening to opinions, better understand the situation at the grassroots level, and reflect the voices of the people. Improve the mechanism for representatives to participate in the work of standing committees and special committees, organize 74 delegates to participate in law enforcement inspections, invite 73 delegates to participate in budget review and supervision, invite 298 delegates to attend the Standing Committee meetings, and convene 5 symposiums.
Closely represent the ties with the people. Promote local people's congresses to organize representatives of the National People's Congress to participate in the activities of the representative liaison station, the representative house and the grassroots legislative contact point. The local people's congresses at all levels have built 228,000 representative liaison stations and representative homes, and have established a work platform based on the grassroots, close to the masses, and covering urban and rural areas for the performance of deputies. Representatives have listened to and reflected the opinions and suggestions of the masses in various ways, and played an important role in giving and uploading.
Improve the level of representative service guarantee work. Organized 1830 representatives to carry out special investigations, inspections and inspections, and formed 91 investigation reports. Adhere to the preference of training resources to grassroots representatives, more than 1900 person-time representatives participated in concentrated training throughout the year, and more than 3200 person-times have been trained in total since the 13th session, basically achieving full coverage of grassroots representatives' performance learning. Coordinate arrangements for 1,254 delegates to participate in the activities of “one government, one committee, two houses” to contact representatives. Strengthen the communication with the unit where the representative is located, and create good conditions for the representative to perform his duties.
In this epidemic prevention and control war, the National People's Congress representatives and local people's congresses actively responded to the Party Central Committee's orders. Under the leadership of the party committees and governments at all levels, they joined the front line of anti-epidemic disease, participated in scientific research, guaranteed the supply of materials, and actively donated donations. He took the initiative to make suggestions and suggestions, played an active role on all fronts and positions, and practiced the glorious mission of representing the people, serving the people, and serving the people with practical actions.
V. Carrying out external work around serving the party and the overall foreign affairs situation of the country
Comprehensively implement Xi Jinping's diplomatic thought, give full play to the functions and functions of the National People's Congress in national diplomacy, and further enhance the initiative, pertinence, and overall planning of the NPC's foreign affairs. A total of 53 delegations from 36 countries and the Inter-Parliamentary Union were received, and 65 delegations were sent to visit 60 countries and 1 regional parliamentary organization.
Taking the implementation of the diplomatic achievements and consensus of the head of state as the primary task, the NPC will strengthen friendly exchanges with national parliaments. Focusing on major policy guidelines for diplomatic work such as developing relations between major powers, strengthening good-neighborliness and friendship with neighboring countries, and deepening solidarity and cooperation with developing countries, we provide legal and policy guarantees for deepening practical cooperation in various fields. Actively promote Xi Jinping's thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, introduce and explain China's roads, Chinese theory, Chinese system, Chinese culture and governance practices, so that the world can learn more about China, the Chinese Communist Party, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. Cooperate with the important home-court diplomatic activities such as the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, the Second China International Import Expo, and deepen exchanges and cooperation with relevant national parliaments. From the perspective of the legislature, the countries concerned are urged to protect China ’s overseas interests and personnel safety, and to assist the country ’s opening-up strategy.
Strengthen bilateral institutional exchanges with foreign parliaments and actively participate in multilateral parliamentary exchanges. Co-host the fifth meeting of the National People's Congress and the Russian Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and carry out institutional exchange activities with the parliaments of France, Japan, Brazil and other countries. Four new bilateral friendship groups have been established, and a total of 129 friendship organizations between the National People's Congress and foreign parliaments have reached a total of 129, adding strength to deepening understanding and enhancing friendship between my country and relevant countries. Send delegations to the 140th and 141st Congresses of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the G20 Speakers ’Meeting, the 28th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, the 4th Eurasian Parliamentary Speakers’ Meeting, the Third Six-Country Speakers ’Meeting, BRICS The National Parliamentary Forum, the Third World Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable Development, the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary World Trade Congress, the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarians ’Environmental Development Conference, the Antarctic Parliamentary Assembly and other conferences used multilateral occasions to strengthen communication and coordination. Held seminars for parliamentarians from developing countries, seminars for parliamentarians from French-speaking African countries, and seminars for parliamentarians from Myanmar. 74 parliamentarians from 14 countries came to China to exchange and learn, and enhance mutual exchanges and experience in governing the country.
Deepen legislative exchanges. Make full use of the legal exchange and cooperation mechanism with relevant countries, and strengthen the exchange of legislative theory, system and practice. Focusing on legislative technical norms, regional collaborative legislation and civil code, patents, protection of minors, administrative punishment, environmental protection and other legislative work, we conducted special investigations and discussions with relevant countries. Actively publicize the People's Congress system of our country, do a good job in the publicity and interpretation of the Constitution and Foreign Investment Law, and introduce my country's legislative achievements in combating money laundering crimes, protecting intellectual property rights and the ecological environment, and opening up to the outside world.
Three Tibet delegations of the National People's Congress were organized to visit relevant countries and regions to publicize and explain my country's ethnic and religious policies and ethnic regional autonomy systems, and introduce the economic and social development achievements of ethnic autonomous areas. It organized 27 grassroots NPC deputies and local NPC deputies to participate in the NPC's diplomatic activities, personally telling their own performance stories, and showing the vivid practice of the Chinese people as masters of the world.
Sixth, adhere closely to the party's leadership, the people are the masters of the country, the organic unity of ruling the country according to law, strengthen their own construction
Adhering to the party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the organic unity of governing the country according to law are inevitable requirements for socialist political development, are inevitable requirements for adhering to and perfecting the people's congress system, and are also important tasks for strengthening the construction of the NPC and its own construction.
Maintain the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralize unified leadership, and ensure that the Party's leadership is implemented in all fields and aspects of the work of the People's Congress. Earnestly carry out education on the theme of "not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission", strengthen the theoretical armament, enhance the sense of responsibility and mission to serve the people and make unremitting efforts to realize the party's historical mission. Six special lectures were held to improve the performance ability and work level. Held the second study and exchange meeting of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on adhering to and perfecting the people's congress system to deeply understand and grasp the scientific connotation of the people's congress system and the practical requirements of the work of the people's congress in the new era. Completion of the new work of the NPC Institutional Theory Research Society, and comprehensively strengthen the NPC theory and practice research.
Expand the orderly participation of the public in the work of the National People's Congress, listen to the opinions of the masses through various forms, and truly achieve the use of power for the people and perform their duties for the people. Deeply implement the eight central regulations and the spirit of its implementation rules, refrain from formalism and bureaucracy, coordinate research activities, and timely understand and reflect the people's expectations and expectations. The Standing Committee and Special Committee conducted nearly 300 investigations. We will give full play to the role of "through train" for ground-level legislative contact points and gather people's wisdom, support grassroots people to participate in the entire legislative process, and collect and reflect opinions and suggestions. Strengthen and improve the work of letters and visits, open the online letter and visit platform of the National People's Congress organs, handle nearly 80,000 letters and visits, of which 178 were transmitted by representatives, and promote the timely settlement of reasonable appeals of the masses according to law.
As the national legislature, the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee take the lead in complying with constitutional laws, performing their duties according to law, and handling affairs in accordance with law. Strictly implement the Legislation Law, the Supervision Law and the Standing Committee Meeting Rules to ensure that every meeting, every agenda, and every bill comply with the constitutional laws and legal procedures. Adhere to the collective exercise of powers and collective decisions, reasonably arrange plenary meetings, group deliberations and joint group deliberations, promote democracy, brainstorm ideas, form consensus, and implement democratic centralism throughout the entire process of performing duties. From the high degree of seriousness of meeting statutory duties, the attendance rate of the Standing Committee meetings is maintained at more than 97%, so that all voting matters are fully pressed by the voter to ensure that the powers given by the people are properly and effectively exercised.
The special committees of the National People's Congress conscientiously perform their statutory duties, and have played an important role in studying, formulating, and reviewing relevant bills, and assisting the Standing Committee in carrying out legislation, supervision, representation, and external work. Comprehensively strengthen the construction of the NPC ’s political, ideological, organizational, style, and discipline, carry out two rounds of internal inspections, strengthen warning education and the prevention and control of integrity risks, improve the level of staff assistants and service guarantees, and build a party center that can be assured and the people are satisfied Model agency.
Improve and strengthen the work of the NPC's press and public opinion, deepen the reporting of the entire process of legislation and supervision, show the performance of representatives in performing their duties, publicize the innovation and practice of the work of local people's congresses, and promote the deepening of the country's fundamental political system. Innovate the publicity methods of the NPC news, accelerate the reform of the NPC magazine and the NPC Internet, and promote the integrated development of the "Journal Network Micro-end". Establish a spokesperson mechanism for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress to promptly clarify positions and propositions on major issues involving my country's core interests. Establish a spokesperson mechanism for the Standing Committee ’s Legal Work Committee to respond to people ’s concerns about relevant legal issues.
Held a forum to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Standing Committee of the local people ’s congresses, a provincial legislative meeting on legislative work, and the 25th national seminar on local legislative work. Work together to do a good job in the people's congress of the new era.
Representatives!
The work achieved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress is under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, the NPC deputies, members of the Standing Committee, members of special committees, and staff of the NPC organs perform their duties and work hard As a result, it is the result of close cooperation and full cooperation between the State Council, the National Supervisory Committee, the Supreme People ’s Court, the Supreme People ’s Procuratorate, and local people ’s congresses and their standing committees. It is the result of the full trust and strong support of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. Here, on behalf of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, I sincerely thank you!
There are still some gaps and deficiencies in the work of the Standing Committee, mainly: the leading role in the legislative work is not fully played, the quality of the legislation needs to be further improved; the mechanism of supervision work needs to be improved, and the effectiveness of supervision needs to be further strengthened; service representatives perform their duties according to law The level of work needs to be improved, and related mechanisms and measures need to be further implemented in detail; the organizational system and rules of procedure of the National People's Congress need to be further improved and the working efficiency of the organs need to be further improved. The Standing Committee will humbly replace the table and opinions and suggestions from all quarters, and continuously strengthen and improve various work.
Representatives!
The Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Party systematically summarized the tremendous achievements and significant advantages of China's national system and national governance system, and made top-level design and comprehensive deployment for adhering to and improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities in the new era . The people's congress system is an important part of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and the fundamental political system that supports the country's governance system and governance capabilities. In the 70 years since the founding of New China, the Chinese people have realized more and more clearly from the rapid development and changes of the country that the people ’s congress system has great advantages and strong vitality. We must always uphold and improve the people ’s congress system, constantly enrich the practical and era characteristics of the people ’s congress system, transform the advantages of the system into the effectiveness of national governance, and firmly control the future and destiny of the country and the nation through the people ’s congress system. In hand.
Main tasks in the next stage
In 2020, our party will lead the people to achieve the goal of the first century of struggle. At present, the external environment is grim and complex, the task of domestic reform, development and stability is arduous and arduous, and the work of the National People's Congress is facing many new situations and requirements. The Standing Committee should hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, guide Xi Jinping ’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as a guide, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Party and the Second, Third, and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 19th CPC Central Committee, and enhance the “four consciousnesses” Steadfastly “four self-confidences”, “two safeguards”, adhere to the party ’s leadership, the people are the masters of the country, govern the country in accordance with the law, organically unify, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and closely promote the “five in one” "Overall layout, coordinated advancement of the" four comprehensive "strategic layout, close decisive battle to overcome poverty and tackle tough targets, build a well-off society in an all-round way, help coordinate the promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, adhere to the overall tone of steady progress, according to law Perform their duties and responsibilities, and promote the people's congress to continuously achieve new achievements and new progress.
Since the beginning of this year, in accordance with the overall deployment of the Party Central Committee, the work of the Standing Committee has proceeded in an orderly manner. The main work arrangements for the next step are:
(1) Ensure the full implementation of the Constitution. Implement the constitutional interpretation procedure mechanism. Promote the review of constitutionality. Strengthen the record review system and capacity building, strictly implement the "Regulations and Judicial Interpretation Record Review Work Method", improve the function of the record review information platform, and strengthen the active review and special review. Do a good job in propaganda and education of the Constitution, and organize constitutional oaths and National Constitution Day activities. Adhere to the rule of law governing Hong Kong and Macao, maintain the constitutional order established by the Constitution and the Basic Law, improve the interpretation system of the Basic Law by the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress, establish and improve the legal system and enforcement mechanism of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to maintain national security from the national level, and accelerate the promotion of relevant legislation . Adhere to the major policy of working with Taiwan, adhere to the one-China principle, resolutely oppose and contain "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, and promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations on the basis of the "92 Consensus."
(2) Strengthen legislation in important areas. This year's legislative tasks are very arduous. It is necessary to grasp the relationship between quality and efficiency, make better use of the leading role of the National People's Congress in legislative work, work hard to improve refinement, precision, and pertinence, and ensure that one piece is made into one piece. Focusing on promoting high-quality development, the Yangtze River Protection Law, the Rural Rejuvenation Promotion Law, the Futures Law, the Hainan Free Trade Port Law, and the Patent Law were revised. Focusing on improving the people's livelihood security system, highlighting legislation in the field of public health, revising the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law, Wildlife Protection Law, Infectious Disease Prevention Law, Frontier Health and Quarantine Law, Emergency Response Law, and Vocational Education Law, formulating the Social Assistance Law and Security for Retired Soldiers Law etc. Focusing on national security and social governance, the Biosecurity Law, the Personal Information Protection Law, and the Data Security Law were formulated, and the Criminal Law Amendment (11) was adopted to amend the Administrative Penalty Law, Administrative Reconsideration Law, Public Security Management Penalty Law, and People ’s Armed Police Law. Focusing on accelerating the construction of a legal system applicable outside of my country's jurisdiction, we have formulated export control laws, amended the anti-money laundering law, the People's Bank of China law, the Commercial Bank Law, and the Insurance Law. Centering on the improvement of the system of the people ’s ownership, the NPC ’s Organic Law and Rules of Procedure, Election Law, and National Flag Law were revised. Do a good job in publicizing and implementing the Civil Code. In accordance with the needs of comprehensively deepening reforms, we must do a good job in relevant legislative work, such as authorization decisions and reform decisions, to ensure that the major legislative tasks determined by the Party Central Committee and the legislative tasks concerning the overall situation of economic and social development are successfully completed.
(3) Do a good job of supervision according to law. Improve the supervision system and mechanism to ensure the implementation of the Party Central Committee ’s decision-making and implementation of the Constitution and laws. Focusing on the major work arrangements of the party and the state, 29 supervision projects are pre-arranged. Focusing on building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, fighting the three major battles well, doing a good job of "six stability", implementing the tasks of "six guarantees", listening to and reviewing 16 work reports on the implementation of innovation-driven development strategies, etc. State-owned assets management and supervision. Inspect the relevant decisions of the Standing Committee and the implementation of six laws including the Wildlife Protection Law, Soil Pollution Prevention Law, Charity Law, Anti-Unfair Competition Law, Public Cultural Service Guarantee Law, and Agricultural Mechanization Promotion Law. Special questioning was carried out around the prevention and control of soil pollution and the rectification of outstanding problems found in the audit. Five special surveys were carried out around the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline, the creation of national unity and progress, and the reform of the social insurance system. This year, the great cause of my country ’s decisive battle to overcome poverty and tackle the difficulties of building a well-off society in an all-round way will surely be included in the glorious history of the Chinese nation and human history. The Standing Committee should closely monitor this major strategic layout and make due contributions to the on-time realization of the goal of the first century of struggle.
(4) Support representatives to perform their duties according to law. Improve the representative liaison mechanism, implement specific measures to strengthen and improve the work of the National People's Congress, and close the contact between the Standing Committee and the representatives, and the representatives and the people. Strengthen the building of representatives, and continuously improve the ideological and political level and the ability to perform their duties. Improve the work of delegating proposals, proposing, handling, and feedback to all parties, implement the mechanism for delegating the response to the promises proposed by delegates, and follow up and supervise. Expand and improve the participation of representatives in the work of the Standing Committee, Special Committees, and Working Committees, and carefully listen to and adopt the opinions and suggestions put forward by the representatives. Do a good job in delegating inspections, research and other work as a whole, and enhance the targeted effectiveness of delegate learning and training. Accelerate the construction of the information platform for performing duties of representatives.
(5) Actively carry out external work. Give full play to the unique advantages of the NPC in foreign relations and serve the overall diplomacy of the party and the country. Strengthen high-level exchanges and give play to the role of special committees, friendly groups, and working agencies in foreign exchanges. Steadily promote exchanges in mechanisms, actively participate in multilateral cooperation in parliaments, strengthen legislative exchanges in the field of public health, and promote the development of national relations and pragmatic cooperation in various fields.
(6) Strengthen the standing committee's own construction. Consolidate and deepen the educational achievements of the theme of "not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission", in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. We will earnestly implement the eight central regulations and the spirit of its detailed implementation rules, improve our work style, closely contact the masses, and conduct in-depth investigations and research. Improve the discussion procedures and working mechanism. Strengthen the theoretical research on the people's congress system and improve the work of the press and public opinion of the National People's Congress. Give full play to the role of special committees. Effectively strengthen the construction of the NPC organs. Focusing on the implementation of the party's central government's major political policies and decision-making and deployment, we will strengthen contact with local people's congresses and enhance the overall effectiveness of the work of the people's congresses.
Representatives!
The victory of building a well-off society in an all-round way is imminent, and the bright future of national rejuvenation is encouraging. Let us be closely united around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, work hard together, forge ahead, and fight for the day and night, and carry out the burden of the day. Strive for the goal of "two hundred years" and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!