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legislation each year. We held training sessions on local legislative work to
offer guidance to local people’s congresses in carrying out collaborative and
joint legislation in areas such as regional environmental protection. We held

workshops for heads of local people’s congresses on the theory on the
people’s congress system, where officials shared their work experiences.
Local people’s congresses assisted us in carrying out inspections into
implementation of laws, conducting legislative research, serving and

supporting deputies, and performing diplomatic work. They contributed
greatly to improving the overall quality of the work of people’s congresses.

Over the past five years, we have improved ourselves in all aspects. As a
result, the NPC’s foundations as a political institution have become more
solid, its responsibilities as an institution of state power have been better
defined, its operations as a working institution have become more efficient,
and its role as a representative institution has become more prominent. We
have ensured that the NPC’s institutional development remains on the right
track, have effectively improved the quality of the NPC’s work, and have
advanced whole-process people’s democracy in an orderly manner.

Fellow Deputies,
The achievements of the 13th NPC and its standing committee have been
made under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with

Comrade Xi Jinping at its core. They are the result of the diligent and hard
work of the NPC deputies, the members of the NPC Standing Committee and
special committees, and the staff of the NPC bodies. They are the result of our
close collaboration and cooperation with the State Council, the National
Commission of Supervision, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme
People’s Procuratorate, and local people’s congresses at all levels and their
standing committees. And they are the result of the full trust and strong
support of the entire Chinese people. On behalf of the 13th NPC Standing

Committee, I would like to express our highest respect and sincere gratitude.
Looking back on the past five years, we are also keenly aware that there

are still a number of problems and shortcomings in the NPC’s work. In some
areas, we found it difficult to adapt to the historic transformation unfolding
on our journey ahead in the new era against the backdrop of our society’s
changing principal contradiction. In particular, we need to further improve
the quality of our legislative work, as our laws are still not systematic,
coordinated, and practicable enough; efforts need to be intensified to make
our oversight work more targeted and effective; and we need to continue to

improve our ability to serve deputies and make our deputy-related work

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