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main work during the past five years was as follows.

1. Ensuring full implementation of the Constitution and upholding its
authority and sanctity
In his article marking the 40th anniversary of the current Constitution,

General Secretary Xi Jinping discussed the Constitution’s supremacy,
emphasized the importance of upholding and strengthening the Party’s
overall leadership over constitutional work, and called for the
implementation of the Constitution in all aspects of China’s governance,
thereby setting the direction for putting the Constitution into full effect.

(1) We improved the Constitution and relevant laws.

The amendment to the Constitution adopted at the First Session of the
13th NPC in March 2018 made it clear that the leadership of the Communist
Party of China is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics,
and it established the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with
Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in China’s political and social activities.

We improved the organizational and electoral systems of people’s
congresses and their operating mechanisms. We revised the Electoral Law
and the Rules of Procedure of the NPC Standing Committee. We submitted to
the NPC for deliberation draft revisions of the NPC Organic Law, the NPC
Rules of Procedure, and the Organic Law of Local People’s Congresses at All

Levels and Local People’s Governments at All Levels. We deliberated the
draft revisions to the Legislation Law and submitted them to this session for
deliberation.

We formulated the Supervision Law, the Supervisory Officers Law, and
the Law on Administrative Action for Public Employees and made a decision
on the formulation of supervisory regulations by the National Commission of
Supervision. We revised the Organic Law of the People’s Courts, the Organic
Law of the People’s Procuratorates, the Judges Law, and the Procurators Law
and formulated the People’s Jurors Law. We revised the Civil Servants Law,
the Trade Union Law, the Organic Law of Villagers’ Committees, and the

Organic Law of Urban Residents’ Committees.
We formulated the Law on the Protection of Heroes and Martyrs, revised

the National Flag Law and the National Emblem Law, and promoted the
implementation of relevant stipulations in the National Anthem Law. With
these efforts, we protected the dignity and legal rights and interests of our
heroes and martyrs, preserved the dignity of our national symbols, and
championed patriotism and the core socialist values, thus assuming our
political duty to ensure China’s ideological security in accordance with the
law.
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