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Throughout this congress, we have ensured oversight across all fields. We
heard and deliberated the first comprehensive reports on the management of
state-owned assets, the first report on financial work, and the first work

report by the National Commission of Supervision, and we conducted the
first special inquiries into the work reports of the Supreme People’s Court and
the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
In the course of exercising oversight, we gained a better understanding of

the nature and role of oversight by people’s congresses; strongly encouraged
the implementation of the Constitution and the law and the proper use of
power and law-based performance of functions by governments,
commissions of supervision, people’s courts, and people’s procuratorates; and
ensured that the powers of all state organs and their employees were subject
to oversight and checks.

4. Leveraging the role of deputies to attend to all public concerns

Following General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on
maintaining close ties between standing committees of people’s congresses
and deputies and between deputies and the public, we strengthened and
enhanced all aspects of our work related to deputies, providing services,
support, and safeguards for their law-based performance of duties. In this

way, we made sure that the idea of the people as masters of the country was
reflected in how our deputies played their roles.
(1) We improved our ability to handle deputies’ proposals and suggestions.

We worked to see that deputies’ proposals and suggestions were of high
quality and were handled effectively. Upon receiving proposals or
suggestions, we sent a status update and written outcome to each deputy
involved, paying attention to both the results and process of handling. We

forwarded all proposals to special committees for consideration and heard
and deliberated their reports on the results of consideration every year, giving
impetus to the enactment of a number of important laws urgently needed in
economic and social development. We offered feedback on every suggestion
put forward by deputies regardless of whether the NPC was in session, with
74 percent of the issues raised therein already solved or currently being
addressed.

(2) We supported deputies in engaging in our work.

We sent 1,026 invitations to deputies to attend our meetings in a
nonvoting capacity and basically ensured all NPC deputies from the primary
level attended at least one meeting during their tenure. We established a
mechanism for holding discussions for nonvoting deputies attending our
meetings. Altogether, we organized 17 discussions with total deputy
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