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With a focus on ensuring judicial impartiality, we conducted regular
oversight of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s
Procuratorate. With regard to the Supreme People’s Court, we heard and

deliberated its reports on resolving difficulties in enforcing court judgments,
criminal trials, civil trials, adjudication involving intellectual property, and
foreign-related adjudication. With regard to the Supreme People’s
Procuratorate, we heard and deliberated its reports on strengthening legal
oversight of civil litigation and enforcement, public-interest litigation filed by
procuratorates, application of the plea bargaining system, processing of
lawsuits and appeals, and procuratorial work relating to minors.

To improve public communications and education on the rule of law, we
carried out research on the seventh five-year initiative to increase legal
literacy among the public, heard and deliberated a report on the

implementation of the resolution on that initiative, and adopted a resolution
on the initiative for the eighth five-year period. This contributed to the
creation of a healthy rule of law environment for our efforts to build China
into a modern socialist country in all respects.

(5) We made sure our research outcomes were put to use.
In concert with our legislative and oversight work, we carried out

research on poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, food security,
environmental protection, pollution prevention and control, local legislation
by cities with districts, the response to population aging, and the initiative to
cherish food and oppose waste. In doing so, we helped address major and
difficult issues that involved the people’s immediate interests. To expand the
scope of our oversight, we carried out research on implementation of the
National Security Law and on reform of the supervision system and
implementation of the Supervision Law.

We carried out research on major issues regarding the formulation of the
14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development,

management and reform of government subsidies, improvement of the
individual income tax system to help regulate income distribution, measures
to leverage the important role of overseas Chinese in the joint pursuit of the
Belt and Road Initiative, development of a national park-based nature reserve
system, and better protection of germplasm resources and innovation in plant
breeding. This helped resolve key issues in our economic and social
development.

We carried out research on the development of education among ethnic
minority groups, implementation of the 13th five-year plan on boosting
development and raising living standards in border areas with large ethnic

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