Source: Overseas Network
With sweat to water the harvest, with hard work and determination to move forward, extraordinary achievements in extraordinary years.
Over the past year and more, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the 13th National People's Congress and its Standing Committee have held high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhered to the organic unity of the party's leadership, the people's mastery, and governing the country according to law, tightly grasped the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, tightly grasped the response to the major concerns of the people, tightly fastened the implementation of the rule of law, promoted the comprehensive rule of law, performed their duties according to law, and promoted the work of the people's congress in the new era to continuously create a new situation.
As of May 11 this year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress had deliberated on 47 draft laws and draft resolutions on decisions on legal issues and major issues, and had adopted 34 draft resolutions, including 5 newly formulated laws, further improving the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics; inspecting the implementation of 6 laws, hearing and deliberating 38 reports, conducting 3 special inquiries, conducting 7 special research and investigations, and further enhancing the effectiveness of supervision work; inviting 298 deputies to attend Standing Committee meetings as observers, holding 5 forums for deputies, and participating by 266 people. It organized 1,830 deputies to carry out special research, inspections, and other activities, held 8 training classes and study classes for deputies, trained 1,907 deputies, and brought the role of people's congress deputies into better play.
Adhere to and improve the system of people's congresses, highlighting the advantages of the system
General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thinking on upholding and improving the system of people's congresses provides scientific guidance and fundamental compliance for doing a good job in the work of people's congresses. At a forum of some NPC deputies held in January this year, Chairman Li Zhanshu said when reviewing his work over the past year: "The NPC Standing Committee has more profoundly realized that upholding the party's leadership is an inherent requirement for implementing the people's congress system and is also a concentrated embodiment of the essential characteristics and political advantages of the people's congress system. ”
Over the past year and more, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has regarded the in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thinking on upholding and improving the system of people's congresses as a compulsory course and basic skill. Following the in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important ideas on upholding and improving the people's congress system in September 2018, the exchange meeting was held again in December 2019, with the theme of "in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important ideas on upholding and improving the people's congress system, strengthening and improving the work of people's congress deputies", focusing on the study and exchange of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the work of people's congress deputies.
The annual "charging" has benefited the "trainees" from the local people's congress standing committees, and they talked freely about how to strengthen and improve the work of people's congress deputies: strengthen study and training, improve their ability and quality; expand channels and methods, stimulate new vitality in close ties; give play to the main role and achieve new results in performing their duties; improve systems and mechanisms, and introduce new measures in service management...
This makes the system more confident: only by further deepening the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thinking on upholding and improving the people's congress system can we continuously improve the level of people's congress work, support and guarantee the people's congress deputies to perform their duties according to law, support and ensure that the people exercise state power through the people's congress, and give full play to the advantages of the people's congress system.
Upholding and improving the system of people's congresses, this kind of firm self-confidence, is reflected through practical actions.
In the face of the sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress actively innovated the form, used a combination of live and video to convene the Standing Committee meeting, made a decision to postpone the third session of the 13th National People's Congress, and deliberated and unanimously adopted the decision on completely banning illegal wildlife trade, eliminating the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals, and effectively protecting the people's life, health and safety.
"It is to strengthen such institutional self-confidence!" In this particularly difficult year, the key is to give better play to the advantages and role of China's fundamental political system, the people's congress system. Now that the Third Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress is about to be convened, through the people's congress system, cohesion, suggestions and suggestions, and the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities can we grasp the work of reform, development and stability, and win the all-round well-off and fight a decisive battle to get rid of poverty. Liu Jianming, a deputy to the National People's Congress from the grassroots level and secretary of the general branch of the party branch of Tangdi Village in Lizhu Town, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, is running in the fields these days, preparing to bring the most down-to-earth voice to the Great Hall of the People.
This fully shows the self-confidence of people's congress deputies in upholding and improving the system of people's congresses.
Improve the quality, accelerate the pace, and show the legislative action
Tight time, fast pace, heavy tasks, great difficulties, and high requirements have become the new normal of legislative work. Entering the second year of performing its duties, the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adheres to the Party's leadership over legislative work, comprehensively implements the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, actively responds to the major concerns of the people, upholds the spirit of scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and legislation according to law, while accelerating the pace of legislation, pays more attention to the quality of legislation, and ensures the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee.
Focusing on comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up to the outside world, implementing the Foreign Investment Law, revising the Land Management Law, and initiating the revision of the Copyright Law; focusing on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, deliberating the draft of the various sub-parts of the Civil Code, formulating the Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law, the Vaccine Management Law, the Drug Administration Law, the Land Management Law, and the Initiation of the Revision of the Law on the Protection of Minors; focusing on promoting the construction of ecological civilization, starting the legislation of the Yangtze River Protection Law, revising the Forest Law, and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste... Over the past year and more, the NPC Standing Committee has deliberated 47 draft laws and draft decisions on legal issues and major issues, and adopted 34 drafts, of which 5 are newly formulated laws, and the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core has been further improved.
-- The legislative contact point asks the law to the people. On November 2 last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the grass-roots legislative contact points of the Gubei Civic Center in Hongqiao Street, Shanghai, and inquired in detail about the solicitation of opinions on the draft law. Hou Xiaoyan, deputy head of the legal detachment of the Ning Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, was discussing with the rule of law information officer at the time, and still has a lot of emotions, "Through the grass-roots legislative contact point, we can submit opinions and suggestions to the top-level design legislators, and even be adopted and written into law." "As a public opinion express train set up by the national legislature at the doorstep of the people, over the past year, a total of 14 draft laws have been solicited from the public through legislative contact points. Asking questions about the law has made the people's congress legislation more grounded, laying a solid foundation for improving the quality of legislation.
--The codification of the Civil Code establishes a record of the history of the law. The draft sub-parts of the Civil Code have entered the deliberation process in an orderly manner, and the number of chapters and articles is unprecedented. Just around the difficult problem of how to pursue the responsibility of high-altitude falling objects, it was changed several times, and finally the third draft added a provision prohibiting high-altitude projectiles, which became a major highlight of the draft revision. One deliberation after another, one meticulously crafted after another, is to make this code closely related to the production and life of the people more perfect. The draft civil code, which is a record in the legislative history of the People's Republic of China, will soon appear at the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress for final deliberation.
-- Accelerating the pace of legislative revisions in the field of health. In accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control in accordance with the law, summarizing the work experience of prevention and control, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has placed the legislative revision work of strengthening the public health rule of law guarantee in an important position. In February this year, a decision was made on completely banning illegal wildlife trade, eliminating the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals, and effectively protecting the people's life, health and safety, and completely prohibiting the consumption of wild animals; in April, the revised draft of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law was first reviewed, and a scientific, reasonable and sound legal system for animal epidemic prevention was established. At the same time, in order to ensure the smooth development of epidemic prevention and control on the track of the rule of law, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has taken the initiative to speak out, provide legal guidance, and respond to social concerns. Over the past year or so, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has formulated the Vaccine Administration Law, the Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law, revised the Drug Administration Law, and deliberated on the draft Biosecurity Law, which fully embodies the "people have called for something, I have something to respond", and the people-centered development concept has always run through the entire legislative process.
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These remarkable legislative stories have been solid on the legislative road for more than a year with solid footprints.
Supervise in accordance with law, correctly, and effectively, and strengthen the effectiveness of supervision
Inspect the implementation of 6 laws, listen to and deliberate 16 special work reports of "one government, two procuratorates", 5 plans and budget and final account supervision reports, carry out 3 special inquiries, and conduct 7 special investigations... The NPC Standing Committee has earnestly undertaken the statutory supervision duties, carried out adherence to the party's leadership throughout the entire process of supervision, centered on the center, close to the people's livelihood, highlighted the key points, and supervised more vigorously and more effectively.
In order to help fight the three major battles, the implementation of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law and the Renewable Energy Law was inspected, and the implementation of the "13th Five-Year Plan" of the Action of Rejuvenating the Border and Enriching the People in Ethnic Minority Areas was examined; in order to promote high-quality economic development, the implementation of the Law on the Promotion of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Law on Employment Promotion was inspected; in order to promote the protection and improvement of people's livelihood, the implementation of the Higher Education Law was inspected, and special research was conducted around issues such as basic social endowment insurance.
Law enforcement inspections are carried out every year, and today's law enforcement inspections are even more obvious to the "rigid nature" of the people's congress supervision. "The people's congress law enforcement inspection is not a general work inspection, but a supervision of the implementation of the law, and must be carried out in accordance with statutory duties, limited to the statutory scope, and compliance with legal procedures. Adhere to the problem-oriented, continuous supervision, grasp to the end, in order to achieve practical results. In the law enforcement inspection, Chairman Li Zhanshu repeatedly stressed it.
The implementation of the tough battle against pollution is the focus of supervision by the people's congress. Following the inspection of the law enforcement of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law in 2018, chairman Li Zhanshu once again served as the leader of the law enforcement inspection team in 2019 to inspect the implementation of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law.
"According to the water pollution prevention and control law, what emergency plan do you have for the protection of water sources?" "What information should be made public?" "For those whose water quality is not up to standard, is there a requirement for rectification within a limited period of time?" ...... A series of problems directly hit the shortcomings in the implementation of the law. Sticking to the law, the inspection team did not miss a loophole.
On the basis of summing up past successful experiences, new measures for law enforcement inspections have appeared frequently: strengthening problem orientation, sorting out the list of legal responsibilities, and closely following the provisions of the law to find problems; strengthening entrusted inspections, specifically listening to the reports of the standing committees of the provincial people's congresses entrusted with inspections, and enhancing the supervision and joint efforts of the people's congresses; inviting third-party institutions to conduct professional assessments to provide technical support and professional reference for law enforcement inspections; increasing the intensity of secret visits and random spot checks, naming and exposing them, and making real efforts to tackle the tough problems.
"These problems come up every year, every year, every year. It is suggested that the National Audit Office can take the lead in establishing and improving the linkage mechanism of the audit and rectification departments to effectively reduce the problem of repeated trials and repeated offenses. In December 2019, at the 15th meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, when the participants deliberated the audit rectification report in groups, Member Du Liming pointed out to the point. Like him, the committee members were concerned about an old problem of audit rectification: in the process of handling problems found by audits, the accountability of the relevant responsible units and responsible persons was "loose and soft", and repeated trials and repeated violations still occurred from time to time. The committee members suggested that we improve the long-term mechanism for treating both the symptoms and the root causes, and at the same time increase the intensity of accountability and accountability.
Such supervision is pertinent!
As an important part of the people's congress's supervisory function, "everything that must be prepared must be reviewed, and mistakes must be corrected," major progress has been made in the filing and review work. In 2019, 53 administrative regulations, 1,391 local regulations, and 41 judicial interpretations were submitted for the record, and 138 review suggestions submitted by citizens and organizations were reviewed and studied. At present, a system mechanism for filing and reviewing various normative documents that is divided into labor and coordinated by various systems such as party committees, people's congresses, governments, and the military has been formed, and the filing and review information platform has been extended to districted cities, autonomous prefectures, and autonomous counties, effectively safeguarding the unity, dignity, and authority of the state legal system.
Deeply rooted in the people, we should give better play to the role of people's congress deputies
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the reason why the people's congress system has strong vitality and significant superiority lies in its deep roots in the people. This important exposition provides guidance and follows for doing a good job in the work of people's congress deputies in the new era.
The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress attaches great importance to the work of deputies and respects the status of deputies as the main body, and on June 17 last year issued 35 specific measures to strengthen and improve the work of NPC deputies. In the view of Yang Hailing, a deputy to the National People's Congress, "This is not only a circular on measures, but more like a 'family letter' written to the deputies, which provides a guarantee for better playing the role of deputies." ”
People's congress deputies come from the people and are very familiar with the actual situation at the grass-roots level. Putting forward motions and suggestions is the basic and most important way for people's congress deputies to perform their duties according to law. In the past year, the motions and suggestions put forward by the deputies involve fighting three major battles, promoting high-quality development, implementing the strategy of rural revitalization, ensuring and improving people's livelihood, and epidemic prevention and control. "High-quality content and high-quality handling" and "both results and processes" should be emphasized, so that the voices of the deputies can be responded to and the people's demands can be implemented.
The reporter learned from the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress that at present, 491 deputies' bills and 8160 proposals have been handled, and 71.3 percent of the total number of suggestions have been resolved or are planned to be gradually resolved.
Over the past year or so, NPC deputies have actively performed their duties in accordance with the law, deeply rooted the "roots" among the people, especially in the special spring of 2020, and even more practiced the Zhengzheng oath with practical actions. They guarded the land and fulfilled their responsibilities, charged ahead, devoted themselves to epidemic prevention and control, and promoted the resumption of work and production, fully demonstrating the mission and responsibility of people's congress deputies in the new era.
Representatives from the medical and health circles have always fought in the front line of the fight against the epidemic and done a good job in treating patients around the clock; representatives from the grass-roots frontline have led the masses to jointly do a good job in mass prevention and control; representatives from the scientific and technological circles have actively overcome difficulties and used "hard-core" technology to efficiently help epidemic prevention and control; representatives from enterprises have donated money and materials to fight the epidemic and fully supported the prevention and control of the epidemic in Hubei...
While actively participating in epidemic prevention and control, npc deputies also proceeded from their respective professional fields, listened to the people's voices, observed the people's feelings, gathered the wisdom of the people, and alleviated the people's worries, and put forward a large number of in-depth and warm suggestions for the overall promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development. Li Yanping, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice president of Chongqing Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, participated in the Chongqing Covid-19 Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Treatment Research and Application Science and Technology Research Project, and in only 8 days, Chongqing's first version of the recommended plan for the prevention and treatment of new crown pneumonia traditional Chinese medicine was released. "TCM is part of medicine and a lot of the advice I've made has been adopted."
Looking back, it is to move forward better! Although the spring event has been postponed to summer due to the epidemic, in this hot and energetic season, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress will hand over an extraordinary answer sheet to the people of the whole country. Entering the year of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan", the NPC Standing Committee and the NPC deputies will closely follow the goal and task of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, perform their duties according to law, assume the responsibility of forging ahead, and make due contributions to the realization of the first centenary goal. (Reporter Wang Bixue)
People's Daily ( 2020-05-20 06 edition)