On March 7, the first session of the 14th National People's Congress held its second plenary session in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

　　China News Agency, Beijing, March 8 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) "The Third Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress reviewed and approved the Civil Code."

Looking at this year's work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Sun Xianzhong, a deputy to the National People's Congress and an expert in the field of legislation, felt particularly strongly about this sentence.

　　A short sentence, but it weighs a lot in Sun Xianzhong's heart.

During the Twelfth National People's Congress, after he was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress for the first time, he submitted a proposal to compile the Civil Code to the National People's Congress, which contributed to the promotion of China's first civil code.

　　One representative's suggestion has turned into practical and tangible progress in the country's rule of law process. There are many NPC deputies like Sun Xianzhong.

Their performance of duties has become the epitome of the whole process of people's democracy, which is collected in the annual work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

　　In China, elected deputies to the National People's Congress are neither officials nor political halos. They have both their own duties and duties, and they can reflect the social conditions and public opinions they have experienced through their duties, and reflect them to the highest organ of power. The impetus to yearn for a better life.

　　Putting forward proposals and suggestions during the annual National People's Congress is an important way for them to perform their duties.

Once these proposals and suggestions are submitted, they will be "registered", transferred to relevant departments for processing after research, and then give feedback to representatives on the processing status, forming a closed loop of "everything is responded to and everything is settled".

　　"The active participation of all sectors of society provides valuable perspectives of observation and practical experience from various fields, which helps to reflect public opinion in national governance and government decision-making." Ronnie Lins, director of the Brazilian Center for China Studies, talked about China's global Expressed during the process of people's democracy.

　　The work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress submitted to the first meeting of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation shows that in the past five years, 2,282 deputies' proposals and 43,750 deputies' suggestions have been processed, and the deputies' satisfaction with the handling of motions and suggestions has reached 98%.

The numbers reflect the sensible side of the people's democracy in the whole process.

　　Chinese-style democracy requires not only the whole process, but also high quality.

Roughly based on the population ratio, China has an average of 1 National People’s Congress representative for every 470,000 people, and the performance level of each representative is directly related to the vital interests of hundreds of thousands of people behind it.

　　To this end, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has carried out a series of work to improve the performance of deputies, including holding study classes, organizing symposiums, conducting special research and intensive inspections, etc.

　　In the past five years, some good practices have been fixed. The work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress pointed out that the Standing Committee's mechanism for contacting representatives has been improved.

Deputies to the National People's Congress are known as "connecting the antenna up and down to the ground." This mechanism makes the channel for public opinion smoother.

　　In China's democratic design, the whole process of people's democracy realizes the unity of indirect democracy and direct democracy.

People can express their appeals through deputies to the National People's Congress, or directly put forward opinions and suggestions.

In this process, it is a typical practice of people's democracy in the whole process that the public participates in legislation and expresses or embodies their interests.

In the meantime, citizens can express their opinions smoothly through the Internet, through letters and telephone calls, and through grassroots legislative contact points.

　　In particular, grassroots legislative contact points are called "legislation at the doorstep".

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 grass-roots legislative contact point based on their personal experience, and they were finally adopted into the promulgated law.

At present, China has achieved full coverage of grassroots legislative contact points in all provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities).

　　Legislative work is also paying more and more attention to responding to and encouraging public participation, so that citizens have a more "sense of participation" and "sense of presence" in participating in legislation.

At the end of last year, the spokesperson of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress also "named and surnamed" the citizens who made suggestions in the legislation for the first time to express their gratitude.

　　According to the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, in the past five years, a total of 154 legal drafts have been released to the public for comments, and more than 1.09 million people have participated, "effectively promoting the improvement of the quality and efficiency of legislation."

　　The public's participation in and management of "state affairs" is not just legislation, but also includes various aspects and links such as supervision.

　　This can be summed up by a high-frequency word in the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress—"the whole process of people's democracy."

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