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minority populations, initiatives to foster ethnic unity and progress, and
economic and social development for ethnic groups with smaller populations.
In doing so, we helped promote development and progress in areas with

large ethnic minority populations.
We carried out research on hidden local government debt, management
and reform of budgets for basic old-age insurance funds, prevention and
mitigation of systemic financial risks, reform of social insurance systems and

implementation of the Social Insurance Law, management and reform of
government investment funds, and management and reform of special local
government debt. Our efforts made fiscal and financial oversight more
effective.

Oversight by people’s congresses is conducted with the authorization of
the law and on behalf of the people. We worked to see that oversight is
always conducted in accordance with the law, in line with our statutory
functions, within our statutory scope of authority, through statutory
procedures, and based on relevant legal provisions. Our goal was to ensure
that the Constitution and laws are effectively implemented and all state

organs perform their functions pursuant to law.
We exercised follow-up oversight to monitor the effects of our work.

Focusing on the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and plans and
attending to the people’s concerns, expectations, and wishes, we conducted
follow-up oversight on prominent issues in areas such as environmental
protection, management of public funds and assets, law enforcement, and
administration of justice. We made sustained efforts and did not stop until we
saw progress made and institutions improved.

We continued to improve mechanisms and methods for conducting
oversight and urged relevant departments to act on the results of our work
report deliberations. While carrying out inspections into the implementation
of laws, we introduced third-party evaluations, adopted various measures

including random inspections, unannounced visits, big data analysis, and
questionnaire surveys, and delegated local people’s congresses to carry out
inspections nationwide. We combined inspections into the implementation of
laws with legislative evaluations and efforts to promote legal literacy among
the public, paying particular attention to facilitating institutional and legal
solutions to common and systemic issues. During inspections into the
implementation of laws concerning environmental protection, we received
nearly 900,000 questionnaires and attracted 178 million participants to our

online quizzes.

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