China News Service, Beijing, March 11 (Xie Yanbing, Liang Xiaohui) 298 bills and more than 7,000 suggestions... At the second session of the 14th National People's Congress, nearly 3,000 National People's Congress deputies submitted their annual performance results to the conference.
Compared with last year, the number of proposals proposed by representatives this year has increased slightly, and the quality continues to improve.
The National People's Congress is a window to understand China.
2024 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress. This year's National People's Congress can be said to be a perceptible aspect of the "long shot" of the effective operation of the Chinese People's Congress system over the past 70 years.
On March 11, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held its closing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Photo by China News Service reporter Sheng Jiapeng
Wang Yongcheng, 57, is the first and currently the only blind deputy to the National People’s Congress in the history of New China.
This conference specially produced a braille version of the government work report for him. In the Great Hall of the People, the scene of him performing his duties on his fingertips made "tangible democracy" more intuitive.
In China, deputies to the National People's Congress have broad representation.
Through the People's Congress system, disabled groups and others actively participate in national management and the democratic process.
Among the deputies to the National People's Congress, there are national leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, university presidents, couriers, taxi drivers, farmers, etc.
The proportion of representatives of front-line workers and farmers reached 16.69%, and the proportion of grassroots representatives continued to increase compared with the previous term.
Some commentators say that this is the result of China's democratic system being constantly explored and becoming more mature and finalized.
Looking back at history, from the "Bean Selection" in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region to the voting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing; from the establishment of the anti-Japanese democratic regime based on the principle of "three three systems" to the establishment of the socialist national system of the people's democratic dictatorship... China has gradually A socialist democratic political system with remarkable results has been formed.
Today, through the People's Congress system and full-chain, all-round, and full-coverage democracy, "guaranteing and supporting the people to be the masters of the country" has been effectively implemented.
On March 11, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held its closing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Photo by China News Service reporter Sheng Jiapeng
The National People's Congress provides a perceptible perspective on how institutional advantages can be better transformed into national governance effectiveness.
New productivity has become a hot word during the two sessions, ranking first among the top ten tasks in the government work report for 2024.
Based on their own actual conditions, the representatives made suggestions on how to make new productive forces a new engine for promoting high-quality development.
In the extensive discussion, this political and economic hot word has a more specific "construction" idea.
In the same way, from the macro policy trends that the outside world pays attention to, to people's livelihood concerns such as elderly care and employment, to hot topics such as artificial intelligence and future industries, public opinion continues to gather and consensus is consolidated.
As China's highest legislative body, the National People's Congress's legislative work also attracts much attention.
While delivering outstanding "report cards" in the past year, the National People's Congress Standing Committee's work report clearly stated that in the next year, a draft ecological and environmental code will be compiled and submitted for review, and a preschool education law and a public health emergency response law will be formulated. wait.
Deputies to the National People's Congress are more involved in this process.
Yang Zaitao, a deputy to the National People's Congress from Guizhou, said that last year she suggested the formulation of a prosecutorial public interest litigation law, which was included in the national legislative plan.
Of the 298 bills proposed by deputies to the National People's Congress this year, 292 are legal bills and 180 have draft texts attached.
The voice of the people can thus be translated into national legislation.
International people and foreign media have also continued to pay increasing attention to this year’s National Two Sessions.
Some commentators say that China's two sessions are a vivid practice of democracy. China's whole-process people's democracy can truly discover and solve the issues that the people are most concerned about, providing important reference for other countries.
In the "long shot" of 70 years, this year's seven-day National People's Congress is just a "small episode", but it reflects the "big picture" of the People's Congress system being continuously developed and improved, and becoming more mature and confident.
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