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made partial adjustments to the statutory functions of the Education, Science,
Culture, and Public Health Committee.

We enhanced the institutions and procedures of special committees, who
held over 500 meetings. The Council of Chairpersons, special committees, and
working commissions and committees led work on drafting laws and
decisions or submitting them for deliberation on 91 occasions, and they
coordinated and offered guidance on the drafting of 137 laws, with 92.7

percent of the items on our legislative agenda completed by the end of our
tenure. All 202 proposals and 171 reports submitted to our meetings for
deliberation were first deliberated by special committees, who produced
reports on the results of their deliberations. Special committees were also
responsible for organizing and conducting research projects and inspections
into the implementation of laws.

We strengthened institutional development by establishing and revising a
number of systems and rules on legislation, oversight, processing of deputies’
proposals and suggestions, deputy-related work, and research projects. We
developed a dynamic closed-loop mechanism for the formulation, evaluation,

and revision of laws to ensure that special committees and working
commissions and committees were put to effective use.

(3) We strengthened our working bodies’ ability to provide quality services.
We increased the number of local legislative outreach offices to 32, now
covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and cities directly under the
central government across the country. We made progress on the Digital NPC

project. We developed a unified national platform for recording and
reviewing normative documents and opened a platform for online
submission of suggestions for review from citizens and organizations. We
established a national database of laws and regulations. We set up five local
liaison offices for our Budgetary Affairs Commission and developed an online
NPC budget oversight system that covers 31 provinces, autonomous regions,

and cities directly under the central government, over 90 percent of
prefectural-level cities, and over 80 percent of counties and districts.
We launched an online state-owned asset oversight system to facilitate
our deliberation. We developed and launched an online NPC deputy work

platform, and we enhanced the quality of video conferences and the online
audience experience. We opened an exclusive e-government WeChat account
for the NPC bodies, making possible the full online processing of deputies’
proposals and suggestions and application of research results. We improved
the NPC’s mechanisms for receiving and processing public letters and visits
and set up an online platform for handling public letters, which allowed us to

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