The Central People’s Congress work conference was held in Beijing from October 13th to 14th. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting and delivered an important speech, emphasizing that the People’s Congress system conforms to my country’s national conditions and reality, reflects the nature of a socialist country, ensures that the people are the masters of the country, and guarantees the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. A good system is a great creation made by our party leading the people in the history of human political system, and a brand-new political system of great significance in the history of political development in my country and even in the history of world political development. We must adhere to the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, uphold and improve the system of people’s congresses, strengthen and improve the work of people’s congresses in the new era, continuously develop people’s democracy throughout the process, and consolidate and develop a lively, stable and united political situation.
Members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng, and Vice President Wang Qishan attended the meeting. Li Zhanshu, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, made a concluding speech.
In his speech, Xi Jinping pointed out that the People’s Congress system, adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the basic principles of the Marxist state theory, adapt to the state system of people’s democratic dictatorship, and effectively ensure that the country advances along the socialist road. The people’s congress system insists that all power in the country belongs to the people, guarantees that the people are the masters of the country to the greatest extent, and organically integrates the leadership of the party, the people to be the masters of the country, and the rule of law to effectively ensure that the governance of the country breaks out of the historical cycle of the rise and fall of governance. For more than 60 years, especially for more than 40 years of reform and opening up, the People’s Congress system has provided important institutional guarantees for the party’s leadership of the people to create miracles of rapid economic development and miracles of long-term social stability.
Xi Jinping emphasized that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has coordinated the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and major changes unseen in a century. Starting from the strategic overall situation of upholding and improving the party’s leadership and consolidating the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the Party Central Committee has continued to promote the people. The theory and practice of the congress system are innovative, and a series of new ideas, new ideas and new requirements are put forward, emphasizing that the leadership of the Communist Party of China must be adhered to, the system must be used to ensure that the people are the masters of the country, the country must be fully governed by law, and democratic centralism must be adhered to. The path of political development of socialism with Chinese characteristics must persist in advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. Institutional competition is an important aspect of competition for comprehensive national strength. Institutional advantages are an important advantage for a country to win strategic initiative. Both history and reality show that a stable system leads to a stable country, and a strong system leads to a strong country. We must unswervingly persevere, advance with the times, improve the people’s congress system, and strengthen and improve the work of the people’s congress in the new era.
Xi Jinping emphasized the need to fully implement the Constitution and safeguard its authority and dignity. The National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee must improve the legal system related to the Constitution, ensure that the systems, principles, and rules established by the Constitution are fully implemented, and strengthen supervision and inspection of the implementation of the Constitution and laws. Local people’s congresses at various levels and their standing committees must exercise their powers in accordance with the law, ensure that the constitution and laws are observed and enforced within their own administrative regions, and consciously maintain the unity of the rule of law in the country.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the improvement of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, promote development with good law, and ensure good governance. It is necessary to strengthen the party’s centralized and unified leadership over legislative work, better integrate reform and development decision-making with legislative decision-making, coordinate the promotion of the domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, coordinate the establishment, reform, abolishment, and codification, and strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging fields, and foreign-related fields. It is necessary to give full play to the leading role of the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee in legislative work, and further promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation.
Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to make good use of the supervisory power granted to the National People’s Congress by the Constitution to implement correct supervision, effective supervision, and supervision in accordance with the law. People’s congresses at all levels and their standing committees must focus on the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, focus on what the people think and hope, and promote the resolution of prominent contradictions and problems that restrict economic and social development. It is necessary to strengthen the supervision of the implementation of laws and regulations and improve the supervision system of the people’s congress. “One government, one committee, and two houses” at all levels must strictly implement the laws and regulations formulated by the people’s congress and its standing committees and the resolutions and decisions made, report work in accordance with the law, and consciously accept the supervision of the people’s congress.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to give full play to the role of deputies to the people’s congress, so that the people can respond to it. It is necessary to enrich the content and form of the people’s congress deputies contacting the people, to better understand the people’s sentiments, gather people’s wisdom, and benefit the people’s livelihood. The standing committees of people’s congresses at all levels should strengthen the capacity building of deputies, and support and ensure deputies to better perform their duties in accordance with the law. Deputies to the people’s congress shoulder the glorious duties entrusted by the people. They must take a firm political stand, fulfill their political responsibilities, keep close ties with the people, and demonstrate the demeanor of the people’s congress in the new era.
Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen the awareness of political organs and strengthen the self-construction of the people’s congress. People’s congresses at all levels and their standing committees must continuously improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, and comprehensively strengthen their own construction, and become a political organ that consciously adheres to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, an organ of state power that ensures that the people are the masters of the country, and is fully responsible for the Constitution. Working organs with various responsibilities entrusted by law and representative organs that have always maintained close contact with the people.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the party’s overall leadership over the work of the people’s congress. Party committees at all levels should put the work of the people’s congresses in an important position, improve the system for the work of party leaders, regularly listen to the work reports of the party group of the people’s congress standing committees, and study and solve major problems in the work of the people’s congresses. It is necessary to support the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee to exercise their powers and carry out their work in accordance with the law, and to guide and urge the “one government, one committee and two houses” to consciously accept the supervision of the National People’s Congress. The party groups of the standing committees of the people’s congresses at all levels must conscientiously implement the various systems of the party’s leadership and fully implement the main responsibility for strict governance of the party.
Xi Jinping emphasized that democracy is the common value of all mankind and an important concept that the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people have unswervingly adhered to. To evaluate whether a country’s political system is democratic and effective, it mainly depends on whether the country’s leadership can be replaced in an orderly manner, whether the entire people can manage state and social affairs, manage economic and cultural undertakings, and whether the people can express their interests smoothly. Requirement: whether all aspects of society can effectively participate in the country’s political life, whether national decision-making can be made scientific and democratic, whether talents from all aspects can enter the national leadership and management system through fair competition, and whether the ruling party can achieve the right to the country in accordance with the constitution and laws. Whether the leadership of affairs and the use of power can be effectively restricted and supervised.
Xi Jinping pointed out that democracy is not an ornament, not for decoration, but for solving problems that the people need to solve. The key to a country’s democracy and undemocratic lies in whether the people are the masters of the country. It depends on whether the people have the right to vote, but also whether the people have the right to participate widely; it depends on what verbal promises the people get in the election process, and more. It depends on how much these promises have been fulfilled after the election; it depends on what political procedures and political rules are stipulated by the system and laws, and even more so on whether these systems and laws are actually implemented; it depends on whether the power operation rules and procedures are democratic. It also depends on whether the power is really subject to the supervision and restriction of the people. If the people are only awakened during voting and enter the dormant period after voting, only they can listen to the slogans during the election, and they have no right to speak after the election, only when they are favored when canvassing votes, and they are left out after the election, this kind of democracy is not true. democracy.
Xi Jinping emphasized that democracy is the right of the people of all countries, not the patent of a few countries. Whether a country is democratic or not should be judged by the people of the country, not by a few outsiders. Whether or not a country in the international community is democratic should be judged by the international community, not by a few self-righteous countries. There are many ways to achieve democracy, and they cannot be the same. It is undemocratic in itself to measure the colorful political systems of the world with a single ruler, and to examine the colorful political civilization of mankind with a monotonous eye.
Xi Jinping pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have deepened our understanding of the law of democratic political development and put forward the major concept of people’s democracy throughout the process. The whole process of people’s democracy in our country not only has complete system procedures, but also has complete participation in practice. The whole process of our country’s people’s democracy has achieved process democracy and outcome democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct and indirect democracy, and the unity of people’s democracy and the will of the country. It is a full-chain, omni-directional, and fully-covered democracy. It is the most extensive and most comprehensive democracy. The real and most useful socialist democracy. We must continue to promote the building of people’s democracy throughout the entire process, and concretely and realistically embody the people’s ownership of the country’s policies and measures, and concretely and realistically reflect the work of the party and state organs at all levels and levels. Locally and realistically, it is reflected in the work of realizing people’s yearning for a better life.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the people’s congress system is an important institutional carrier for realizing the whole process of people’s democracy in our country. Under the leadership of the party, it is necessary to continuously expand the people’s orderly political participation, strengthen the protection of human rights and the rule of law, and ensure that the people enjoy extensive rights and freedoms in accordance with the law. It is necessary to ensure that the people exercise the right to vote in accordance with the law, and democratically elect representatives to the people’s congress to ensure that the people’s right to know, participate, express, and supervise is implemented in all aspects of the work of the people’s congress throughout the entire process, to ensure that the party and the state are making decisions, implementing, and supervising implementation. Every link can hear the voice of the people. It is necessary to improve the democratic public opinion expression platform and carrier of the people’s congress, improve the working mechanism of absorbing public opinions and pooling people’s wisdom, promote consultations and legislative consultations with the people’s congress, and unify all aspects of social conditions and public opinions in the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people.
Li Zhanshu made a concluding speech around studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech. He pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, from the strategic perspective of improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, clearly put forward the guiding ideology, major principles and main tasks for strengthening and improving the work of the People’s Congress in the new era. Provide profound answers to a series of major theoretical and practical questions concerning the development of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and the persistence and improvement of the people’s congress system. The speech enriched and expanded the political, theoretical, and practical connotations of the socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics and the People’s Congress system. It is a programmatic document full of the power of Marxist truth.
Li Zhanshu emphasized that it is necessary to comprehensively and conscientiously implement the spirit of General Secretary Jinping’s important speech, be clear-cut and unswervingly implement the supreme political principle of adhering to the party’s leadership, and ensure that all work of the National People’s Congress is carried out under the leadership of the party; maintaining politics Sober and firm, always adhere to the fundamental direction of the political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics; hold high the banner of people’s democracy and give full play to the role of the people’s congress system as an important institutional carrier for the realization of the whole process of people’s democracy in our country; work around the party and the country Carry out the work of the people’s congress in the overall situation, and ensure that where the focus of the work of the party and the country is, the work of the people’s congress will be followed up, where the strength will be concentrated, and the role will be played; Become an important manifestation of the people being the masters of the country. Efforts should be made to promote the high-quality development of the work of the National People’s Congress, so that the advantages of the people’s congress system can be better transformed into the effectiveness of national governance. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the self-construction of the People’s Congress, strengthen the “four consciousnesses”, strengthen the “four self-confidence”, and achieve the “two safeguards”, and strive to create political organs, state power organs, working organs, Representative office.
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Central Secretariat, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, state councilor, president of the Supreme People’s Court, chief prosecutor of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, and relevant leading comrades of the CPPCC attended the meeting.
Party secretaries and comrades in charge of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, deputy directors of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress at the provincial level, major comrades in charge of various departments of the central and state organs, relevant people’s organizations, and relevant departments of the Central Military Commission, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and various specialized Relevant responsible comrades of the committee and the working committee of the Standing Committee attended the meeting.
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