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requires a great sense of commitment and responsibility. Deputies are elected
by voters or electoral units, but that doesn’t mean that they can represent only
the interests of the constituencies or organizations that elected them, and still

less can they represent special interests. Rather, they represent the
fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. They must
reflect the will and wishes of the public, communicate the Party Central
Committee’s major decisions and plans to the people, and see that those
decisions and plans are implemented.

Deputies have better fulfilled their roles. As part of people’s congresses,
deputies are members of organs of state power, but they also come from the
people and are rooted in the people. They have jobs outside of their roles as
deputies, but they also have to perform their state duties. In their daily jobs,
our deputies have assumed important responsibilities and conducted

themselves in ways that befit people’s congress deputies in the new era. And,
through the concrete performance of their state duties, they have
accomplished their honorable mission of representing the people, working for
the people, and serving the people.

5. Giving play to the NPC’s strengths in international exchanges and
working to advance the overall diplomatic agenda of the Party and the
country

With the guidance of Xi Jinping’s thinking on diplomacy, we prioritized
the implementation of consensus reached at the head-of-state level, grounded
our efforts in our functions as the nation’s legislative body, and leveraged our
strengths and capacity in international exchanges to serve our national
strategies and defend our national interests.

(1) We strengthened bilateral exchanges with parliaments of other countries.
We maintained exchanges and communications with parliaments of

nearly 190 countries and regions and signed 11 agreements on friendship and
cooperation with relevant countries and multilateral parliamentary
organizations. We hosted 111 delegations to China and sent 150 delegations
abroad. Since the onset of Covid-19, we made active use of “cloud diplomacy”
and held more than 260 bilateral video events. We also organized 98 offline
diplomatic events and exchanged nearly 2,000 diplomatic letters.

We advanced legal cooperation projects with relevant countries and
engaged in exchanges and discussions on issues such as constitutional
reviews during the drafting of laws, the establishment and improvement of

legal systems, supporting regulations for laws, and technical standards in the
legislative process. We visited relevant countries for legislative exchanges on
the formulation of a medical security law and revision of the Physical Culture
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