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should work faster to make laws that improve the people’s wellbeing,
promote scientific and technological, social, and cultural progress, protect the
environment, and strengthen security and national defense. We should work

to both pursue development and ensure security and provide legal support
for Chinese modernization.
2. Enhancing the effectiveness of oversight

We should improve our methods for carrying out oversight and make
sure that oversight is conducted in an appropriate, effective, and lawful way.
We should focus our oversight on the targets and tasks set at the 20th
National Party Congress and the major decisions and plans made by the Party

Central Committee. We should align our oversight with the people’s concerns,
expectations, and wishes. In hearing and deliberating reports, we should
maintain our focus on advancing high-quality development. We should
conduct oversight of the major matters approved at this session. We should
strengthen examination and oversight of government budgets and final
accounts and enhance oversight over state-owned asset management,
implementation of laws, supervision, and judicial work.

3. Improving deputy-related work

We should raise the quality and effectiveness of our processing of
deputies’ proposals and suggestions, strengthen process management and
follow-up supervision, and improve our supervision mechanisms for the
handling of key suggestions. We should improve the mechanisms for
Standing Committee members to get in touch with deputies and the working
mechanisms through which special committees and working commissions

and committees maintain contact with deputies from relevant fields or with
relevant professional knowledge, and we should encourage more deputies to
participate in the work of the Standing Committee. We should work to foster
closer ties between deputies and the people, improve activities for deputies
when the NPC is not in session, and make continued efforts to build working
mechanisms and platforms to facilitate communications between deputies

and the people. We should step up training of deputies to help them better
perform their duties.
4. Engaging in international exchanges

We should spare no efforts in supporting the diplomatic agenda set by the
Party and the country and complete the foreign affairs tasks entrusted to the
NPC by the Party Central Committee. We should strengthen exchanges

between the NPC and parliaments of other countries on multiple levels and in
various ways and areas, in order to lay solid social and legal foundations for
advancing bilateral relations. We should take an active part in activities
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