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share information about the Law on Safeguarding National Security in the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, our opposition against the
politicization of efforts to trace origins of Covid-19, the 14th Five-Year Plan,

and the guiding principles from the 20th National Party Congress. In this way,
we provided effective support to the country’s overall diplomatic efforts.
(4) We resolutely safeguarded China’s sovereignty, security, and development
interests.

We took active and appropriate action to safeguard our national interests
using international rules and adopted countermeasures against members of
parliaments of certain countries on the basis of the principle of reciprocity. We

put spokespeople at all levels of the NPC. We made unequivocal and timely
statements on 48 occasions about the NPC’s stances on issues such as Tibet,
Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, human rights, the Covid-19 pandemic, and
other sensitive issues that involve China. These came in the form of remarks
by the NPC Standing Committee spokesperson, statements from the NPC
Foreign Affairs Committee, and remarks by spokespersons of the NPC
Foreign Affairs Committee and the Standing Committee Legislative Affairs
Commission.

(5) We actively conducted international communications.

We conducted foreign exchanges on national governance experience;
introduced to the world information about Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism
with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, achievements and experience in
China’s reform and opening up, the people’s congress system, and the ways
in which the Chinese people run China; and shared the features and strengths

of socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics.
We translated annual compilations of the laws of the People’s Republic of

China into English and had them published, and we released the English
translations of 87 laws and decisions on the official website of the NPC,
presenting China’s achievements in advancing the rule of law on all fronts.
We developed and made good use of the NPC’s English website and explored
more forms of new media to enhance our international reach and influence
through information sharing and communications. We invited 94 deputies
from the primary level to attend the NPC’s foreign affairs activities and
discuss the strengths of the people’s congress system through sharing their

personal experiences in performing their duties.
The NPC’s diplomatic work over the past five years has made us all the

more aware that, in this new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the
primary tasks in the NPC’s diplomatic work are as follows: (1) focusing on the
country’s overall diplomatic agenda, helping implement important consensus
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