China News Service, Beijing, January 18 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) Zang Tiewei, spokesperson of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and Director of the Research Office, recently gave an exclusive interview with China News Service “China Focus Face-to-face”. Story-a group of middle school students and a "letter without words".

　　Zang Tiewei recalled these two stories when he talked about China's opening-door legislation.

"I have been engaged in legislative work for nearly 30 years, and there are several cases that impressed me very much."

Zang Tiewei, spokesperson for the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and director of the research office, recently accepted an exclusive interview with China News Service in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tian Yuhao

　　One is the story of a group of middle school students.

Zang Tiewei said that when the Minor Protection Law (Revision) in 2020 was soliciting comments from the legislative contact point, a group of middle school students from the High School Affiliated to East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai put forward many amendments to the Hongqiao legislative contact point, including questions about extracurricular tuition classes, The issue of teachers' right to discipline, how to prevent young people from indulging in the Internet, and domestic violence.

　　"After the opinions put forward by these students were fed back to the legislative work organization through the Hongqiao Legislative Contact Point, we conducted research one by one, and some of them were adopted into the final legal bills." Zang Tiewei said. For this reason, the Legal Work Committee also specially sent to the East China High School. I went to a thank you letter to thank them for their participation and support in the legislative work.

　　One is a "letter without words".

Zang Tiewei recalled that some people's comments on the draft law (draft property law) were a letter without words.

After the letter reached the legislature, the staff opened it and saw that there was no word, only the dense pinholes.

Later, everyone guessed that this was probably a letter written in Braille. Our colleagues took this letter without a single word to the China Disabled Persons’ Federation for help.

The China Disabled Persons’ Federation organized several braille experts to translate them on the same day. They were indeed using braille to put forward their opinions on the draft law.

We researched and sorted out each opinion.

Later, I learned that it was a visually impaired patient in Shandong who wrote this letter to the legislative agency in Braille.

　　"Our students and our patients can freely express their opinions on the legislative work and on the draft law, and our staff must have carefully studied and sorted out every opinion. It can be seen that the right of ordinary people to participate in the legislative work is It is fully guaranteed." Zang Tiewei said.

　　According to him, there are two main channels for Chinese people to reflect their opinions to the legislature: publicly soliciting opinions from the society by participating in draft laws. In China, the practice of publicly soliciting opinions on draft laws has a history of more than 60 years; and through the legislative contact of the Legal Work Committee. China has established ten legislative contact points, nine of which are grass-roots legislative contact points and one is a university.

　　"Ordinary people’s opinions on legislation are reflected in the legislative work organs through a very smooth channel; ordinary people’s opinions are adopted and absorbed into the draft law, which is also a very normal and frequent occurrence." Zang Tiewei said.

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