We can see that the 12th NPC and its standing committee have received great achievements. For the past five years, the 12th NPC and its standing committee enacted laws 25 pieces, revised 127 laws, passed the relevant legal issues and the decision of the major issues in 46 times, 9 pieces legal explanations, large quantity of legislation , high efficiency and the effect is quite outstanding. Standing committee checked 26 pieces of law and the implementation of one decision, listened to and deliberated on the 83 work reports, 7 decisions, Conducted 15 special questions and 22 special investigations, more perfected supervision mechanism and improved supervision efficiency. A total of approximately 43 decisions that ratified the treaties and agreements between China and foreign countries.
For instance, Since 2013, the NPC Standing Committee has produced or revised about 20 environment-related laws and bills, including the Environmental Protection Law and the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law. “In the past five years, we’ve made greater efforts in legislation and supervision aimed at protecting the environment and ecology, especially in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, which is frequently hit by smog,” said Yuan Si, vice-chairman of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the 12th National People’s Congress. “We’ve found some problems in related inspections and pushed for rectifications,” he said, adding that the top legislature will strengthen efforts to better supervise environmental protection by conducting more law enforcement inspections and closely following the rectification progress.
Lyu Caixia, a member of the 12th NPC’s Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, said that the legislature is studying improvement of resource utilization through use of legislation in response to a question on how to fight pollution caused by trash. The central leadership has highlighted the importance of garbage classification and resource recycling.
Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Chinese president Xi Jinping as the core, the Standing Committee of the 12th National People’s Congress fully implemented the spirit of the party’s18th and 19th National Congress, thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping’s socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in a new era, and firmly adhered to the Party’s leadership, the people as masters of the country, the rule by law, organically united, firmly safeguarding the authority and core status of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and resolutely safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee with Chinese president Xi Jinping as the core, and concentrating on unified leadership, conscientiously fulfilling the responsibilities entrusted by the Constitution and laws, comprehensive create a new situation in the work of the NPC. In the new situation, major achievements have been made in the theoretical and practical innovation of the system of people’s congress and major steps have been taken in building socialist democracy and the rule of law.
In the past five years, their efforts have been made to strengthen the legislation in key areas, and making major progress in all aspects, initiating the compilation of civil code, and formulating the general principles of civil law ;In the area of national security legislation, the overall national security concept has been implemented, and around the construction of a national security legal system, national security laws, intelligence laws, counter-espionage laws, cyber security laws, and nuclear safety laws have been adopted, the national security legal system framework basically constitutes; Legislation in economic and social culture; cultural legislation; making and revising environmental and ecological laws, especially in preventing and controlling air and water pollution as well as protecting wildlife; Pilot work of national supervision system reform; In order to ensure the implementation of the constitutional law, the standing committee of the National People’s Congress has also established a series of systems from the legal system, Such as the decision to establish a constitution day, the adoption of a constitutional oath, the formulation of the national anthem law, and the adoption of an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law 104 , they have effectively promoted the constitutional spirit and safeguarded the constitutional authority. That is, through the legal decisions and authorization decisions of relevant reforms, it provides guarantees for reforms and ensures that major reforms are based on law.