Legislation is an important function and power and a major task of the NPC and its Standing Committee. The Standing Committee has given top priority to improving the quality of legislation, highlighted legislative priorities, accelerated the pace of legislative work, and improved the mechanisms for and effectiveness of legislation.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress firmly establishes political awareness, overall awareness, core consciousness, and Aligning with consciousness, It consciously maintains a high degree of unity in ideological and political action with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core. It upholds the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee and resolutely upholds the authority of the Party Central Committee ensure that the Party’s line, principles and policies as well as the decision-making and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are implemented in the work of the National People’s Congress.
According to Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, Deputies to the 12th NPC have loyally represented the interests and will of the people, devoted to their duties and worked diligently, making positive contributions to the development of socialist democracy and the building of a country of socialist rule of law.
He also asked for the long-term adherence to and continuous improvements in the system of people’s congresses, as it is a political system fundamental to adhering to the Party’s leadership, the people being the masters of the country and law-based governance.
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“Through the formulation of the supervision law, the implementation of institutional innovation and organizational innovation, the practices and experiences proven to be effective and also have been raised to the legal system, to strengthen the party unified leadership of anti-corruption work, build efficient supervisory authority system, promoted the national governance system and the modernization of governance capacity ,has great and far-reaching significance,” said Zhang Yesui, a spokesperson for the 13th National People’s Congress’s First Meeting.
Formulating the national anthem law, introducing the national security law, comprehensively revising the environmental protection law, deciding to establish the anniversary of the martyrs, and explaining the 104th article of the Hong Kong Basic Law. In the past five years, the NPC Standing Committee has been making efforts to strengthen legislation in key areas and improve the constitution as the core socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics. Scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation made new progress.
“In recent years, our country’s legislative work has responded to the propositions of the times and led the country’s development. It is more in line with the needs of social development and the people’s wishes.” National People’s Congress deputy Guo Naishuo said.
In April 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress passed a revised environmental protection law. This environmental protection law, known as “the strictest in history,” has opened up a new era of pollution control in China.
“The contribution of legislators behind the blue sky.” Zhou Guangquan, deputy to the National People’s Congress, believes that the 12th National People’s Congress and its standing committee have achieved outstanding results in protecting the livelihood legislation.
For the past five years, legislation advances steadily in all key areas.
Improve the legal system for ensuring the implementation of the constitution, accelerate the construction of national security and the rule of law, strengthen the socialist market economic legislation, use the law to promote the construction of the socialist core values, and firmly safeguard the constitutional order of the special administrative region established by the Constitution and the Basic Law, etc. legislation in adapting to the needs of economic and social development and the role of “guarantee” and “advance” effect of deepening the reform of various tasks is vividly presented on paper.
Legislation is the premise and foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law. The Standing Committee adhered to legislation in advance, firmly seized upon major legislative projects related to reform and development, and stability seized the key to improving the quality of legislation, and promoted the standardization and institutionalization of legislative work.