China News Agency, Beijing, January 10 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) Sun Zhenping, director of the Office of the Legal Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, introduced to a reporter from China News Agency on the 10th that the fourth batch of 10 grassroots legislative contact points of the Legal Work Committee have been added. The total number of legislative contact points reached 32, achieving full coverage in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).
The grassroots legislative contact point is vividly called "legislation at the doorstep". The public can go to the grassroots legislative contact point nearby to put forward their own opinions and suggestions on the legislative work.
In the past, a group of middle school students put forward their opinions on the revision of the Law on the Protection of Minors to the grassroots legislative contact point based on their personal experience, and they were finally adopted into the introduced law.
At present, the Legislative Affairs Committee has solicited the opinions of grassroots legislative contact points on 152 draft laws, and ordinary people put forward more than 15,000 opinions and suggestions "authentically" through this platform.
"The most important role of grassroots legislative contact points is the 'through train' of national legislation." Sun Zhenping said that the population of the area covered by the 32 grassroots legislative contact points has reached more than 57.7 million people, and more and more people can respond to concerns at their doorsteps. Express opinions and express demands on legal issues.
He pointed out that the "full coverage" of 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) has greatly expanded the coverage of grassroots people and the number of participants, which is of great significance to the development of people's democracy in the whole process and ensuring that the people are the masters of the country.
In addition, "full coverage" is also conducive to further exerting the role of radiation and driving, and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.
According to reports, the 32 grass-roots legislative contact points radiate and drive the establishment of 509 provincial-level grass-roots legislative contact points and more than 5,000 district-level municipal-level grass-roots legislative contact points across the country, forming a three-level linkage working mechanism. A platform for grassroots people to discuss, build and share together.
Sun Zhenping said that through this mechanism and platform, everyone can reflect not only legal issues, but also local social governance issues, which effectively improves the effectiveness of social governance, promotes the rule of law and the construction of a safe China, and promotes more effective and fairer social governance benefit all the people.
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