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China and advancing the rule of law in China.

Fellow Deputies,
Over the past five years, we in governments at all levels faithfully
implemented the Party Central Committee’s strategic plans for full and rigorous
Party self-governance, launched both initiatives to raise awareness of the need to

stay true to the Party’s founding mission and programs to study the Party’s history,
and carried forward the great founding spirit of the Party.
We strictly complied with the central Party leadership’s eight-point decision on
improving work conduct and kept up our efforts to tackle pointless formalities,

bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, with emphasis on the first two.
Spending on official overseas visits, vehicles for official use, and official hospitality
was slashed.
We resolutely investigated and strictly dealt with instances of constructing
government buildings in breach of regulations and cases of tax evasion. Greater

efforts were made to build a government of integrity. All of us in government have
readily placed ourselves under the oversight of the law, supervisory bodies, and
the people.
There is no shortcut to achieving economic and social development; only solid

work will deliver it. Over these five years, we followed the guidance of Xi Jinping
Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and fully
implemented the Party’s basic theory, basic line, and basic policy. Taking economic
development as our central task, we strived to pursue high-quality development,

tackled challenges and difficulties head-on, fulfilled our commitments with solid
work, and made concerted efforts to promote development.
We took meeting the people’s expectations as the goal of our governance,
always kept the people uppermost in our minds, and put their interests above all

else. We fully heeded their views, endeavored to gain a full understanding of their
needs, and spared no effort to solve the pressing difficulties and problems that
concerned them most.
We adhered to the principle of seeking truth from facts, with full respect for
objective laws, and resolutely opposed empty talk and boastfulness, window

dressing, vanity projects, and rash and reckless moves.
By carrying out reform and making unremitting efforts, we resolved problems
and fostered vitality. We applauded those who lived up to their responsibilities

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