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Beijing Financial Court, Chengdu-Chongqing Financial Court, and Hainan
Free Trade Port Intellectual Property Court. We authorized the Supreme
People’s Court to carry out reform trials for streamlining civil litigation

procedures and defining the adjudicative functions of the four levels of courts,
and we made a decision on litigation procedures for cases involving patents
and other intellectual property rights. We heard and deliberated reports on
the implementation of 10 authorization and reform decisions.

Over the past five years, under the centralized, unified leadership of the
Party Central Committee, a legislative framework has taken shape under
which Party committees give guidance, people’s congresses play the leading
role, the government offers support, and all stakeholders participate. We
made sure that people’s congresses effectively played their leading role in
selecting legislative subjects, evaluation, debate, launching projects,

coordination, drafting, soliciting opinions, and deliberation. We enriched our
approach to legislative work, devoting our attention to both substantial
legislation and shorter, more efficient, high-impact legislation. We made
extensive use of special plans for enacting and revising laws, legislative task
forces, targeted and precise legislation, and case-specific legislation, and we
encouraged the adoption of methods and models such as joint legislation and
legislation based on regional collaboration.

We advanced legislative work in a scientific and democratic way in
accordance with the law. We carried out legislative debates and consultations
and conducted evaluations of legislative items both before and after their

promulgation. We solicited 154 rounds of public opinion on draft laws and
received more than 1.09 million comments. All of this effectively enhanced
the quality and efficiency of our legislation.
Over the past five years, we have made steady progress in advancing

high-quality legislation, further improved the socialist legal system with
Chinese characteristics, and provided more complete legal protection for
efforts to build China into a modern socialist country in all respects.

3. Making good use of the oversight power conferred upon the NPC by
the Constitution and conducting appropriate, effective, and law-based
oversight
We brought into better play the important role of oversight by people’s

congresses in the Party and state oversight systems and employed a
combination of statutory oversight methods to ensure that China’s
Constitution and laws were effectively implemented and that administrative,
supervisory, adjudicatory, and procuratorial powers were properly exercised
in accordance with the law.

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