What steps must be taken to start the National People's Congress?

　　(Observation of the NPC and CPPCC) What steps must be taken to start the National People's Congress?

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 4th (Huang Yuqin) The fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress is about to kick off. As the highest authority in China, the annual meeting—how to hold the National People’s Congress, what preparations are there before it starts, and how to proceed. Be particular.

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　　Careful people discovered that on the evening of the 4th, the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress held a preparatory meeting, a presidium meeting, and a press conference, completing the final preparations before the opening of the conference.

But in fact, the preparations for the conference have already started.

　　From the timeline to sort out the preparation process for the annual National People's Congress, the "first step" is the NPC Standing Committee meeting.

According to the rules of procedure of the National People's Congress, the National People's Congress is convened by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the draft agenda of the meeting, the draft list of the presidium and the secretary-general are proposed, and the list of participants and other preparations are decided.

　　The "this step" of this year's National People's Congress was completed at the NPC Standing Committee meeting in February.

At that time, the meeting voted and approved the draft agenda for the Fourth Session of the 13th National People's Congress, the draft presidium and the draft list of the Secretary-General, etc.

　　However, these drafts have gone through statutory procedures to become decisions and have to wait until the preparatory meeting.

The Organic Law of the National People's Congress and the Rules of Procedure of the National People's Congress stipulate that before the National People's Congress meeting, a preparatory meeting is held, the presidium and the secretary-general are elected, and the meeting agenda and decisions on other preparations for the meeting are adopted.

Until this time, the agenda of the annual National People's Congress was "released".

　　The preparatory meeting was followed by the first meeting of the presidium of the conference.

This meeting decides on the agenda of the conference, elects several executive chairman of the presidium, elects the executive chairman of the plenary meeting of the conference, decides on the candidates of the deputy secretary-general of the conference, appoints the spokesperson of the conference, and decides the method of the resolutions of the conference.

　　Only by completing this step can the first press conference of the annual National People's Congress be held.

　　As at the press conference of the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress on the evening of the 4th, the host said: “Just now the Presidium of the General Assembly held its first meeting and appointed Mr. Zhang Yesui as the spokesperson of the General Assembly.” Spokesperson Zhang Yesui continued: “Just now The preparatory meeting of the congress adopted the agenda of the congress"... This is the embodiment of the Chinese National Congress meeting in accordance with legal procedures, and every step cannot be saved.

　　It is worth mentioning that, affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the press conference of the National People's Congress last year was also held in the evening.

The special arrangement of the "night press conference" stems not only from the legal procedural requirements of the conference, but also from the consideration of transmitting information to the outside world as soon as possible.

　　At this year's National People's Congress, the Organic Law of the National People's Congress and the rules of procedure of the National People's Congress will also be revised for the first time.

A series of innovative practices over the past 30 years of law enforcement are expected to be included in the amendments, including setting up a spokesperson for meetings, setting up a spokesperson for delegations, and making public reports on meetings through radio, television, and the Internet.

　　This means that the meeting procedures that "cannot save every step" will be further clarified in the form of law.

And every step of this refracts exactly the path of China's democratic politics.

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