Following is the full text of the Report on the Work of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), which was delivered by Chairman
Zhang Dejiang of the NPC Standing Committee on March 8, 2015 for review at the Third Session of the 12th NPC and adopted on March 15, 2015:
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS
Delivered at the Third Session of the 12th National People's Congress on March 8, 2015
Zhang Dejiang
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Fellow Deputies,
On behalf of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), I now present to you this report on the work of the Standing Committee for your deliberation.
Major Work of the Past Year
In 2014, under the firm leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with Comrade
Xi Jinping as General Secretary, the Standing Committee has been comprehensively implementing the guidelines of the 18th National Party Congress and the third and fourth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee; following the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development; and fully putting into practice the guiding principles from General Secretary Xi Jinping's major speeches. We have been focusing on the overall work of the Party and country as we have performed our functions and powers in accordance with the law, fully playing our role as the country's highest organ of state power and conscientiously working to ensure the accomplishment of all our tasks as set forth by the Second Session of the 12th NPC. As a result, we have made new progress and achievements in all our work.
I. We have been upholding the leadership of the CPC and have enhanced our confidence in the system of people's congresses.
The leadership of the Party is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In adhering to and improving the system of people's congresses, we must unwaveringly uphold the Party's leadership and strengthen our confidence in the system. We must improve the system on the basis of upholding the Party's leadership and develop it through practice to ensure it advances with the times.
1. We have been upholding the Party's leadership throughout every process and aspect of the work of the NPC.
In upholding the Party's leadership, we must first and foremost uphold the centralized leadership of the CPC Central Committee. In carrying out the work of the NPC, we must resolutely implement the Party's line, principles, policies, decisions, and plans; work actively to make sure our thinking, our actions, and our politics all maintain a high degree of unity with the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary; and conscientiously safeguard the authority of the Central Committee.
Over the past year, we have armed ourselves with the Party's basic theories and used them as a guide in our practice and our work, deepened our study and implementation of the guiding principles from General Secretary Xi Jinping's major speeches, and strengthened the Standing Committee both theoretically and politically. These efforts have enabled us to align our thinking and action with the guidelines of the Central Committee, keeping us firmly heading in the right political direction.
Strictly adhering to the strategic arrangements set forth by the Central Committee, we made coordinated plans that cover all aspects and major activities in the work of the NPC, including legislation, oversight, decision making, and the work regarding deputies, and ensured that all major policies, plans, and measures of the Central Committee were implemented. We improved the system of requesting instructions and submitting reports. For major issues and tasks in the NPC's work, the Leading Party Members' Group of the Standing Committee promptly requested instructions from and submitted reports to the CPC Central Committee, and we carried out relevant work in accordance with the law and procedures. Upholding the Party's leadership over people's congresses is for ensuring that the Party can exercise leadership over the state and society through organs of political power.
2. We celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the NPC, and strengthened our sense of responsibility and mission in adhering to and improving the system of people's congresses.
On September 5, 2014, the CPC Central Committee and the Standing Committee of the NPC held a commemorative meeting for the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the NPC. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the meeting, in which he reviewed the historic changes in China's political system since modern times and expounded on the historical necessity for the establishment of the system of people's congresses in China. He pointed out that this system provides a fundamental institutional arrangement for integrating leadership by the Party, the position of the people as masters of the country, and the law-based governance of the country, and is the fundamental political system underpinning China's governance system and capacity for governance. He also made it categorically clear that we must firmly adhere to this system and improve it in step with the times, keep to the socialist path of political development with Chinese characteristics, and continue to expand socialist democracy and promote socialist political progress.
Guided by the important principles from General Secretary Xi Jinping's above speech, we held a seminar on theory in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the NPC, at which we systematically reviewed China's 60 years of experience implementing the system of people's congresses. This invaluable experience has shown us that we must uphold the leadership of the CPC and ensure it leads the people in governing the country effectively; we must uphold the people's principal position in the country and support and ensure their exercise of state power through the people's congresses; we must remain dedicated to the historical mission of rejuvenating the country and focus our energy on carrying out socialist modernization; we must exercise governance of the country on the basis of law and build China into a socialist rule of law country; we must improve and develop the system of people's congresses in light of China's specific conditions; and we must adhere to democratic centralism and give full play to the features and strengths of the system of people's congresses. We must always keep these lessons firmly in mind and constantly build on them.
The NPC and local people's congresses at all levels organized various kinds of celebrations and commemorative activities to study, publicize, and implement the guiding principles from General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech. Encouraged and spurred on by these guiding principles, our deputies have increased their sense of motivation and resolve for keeping to the socialist path of political development with Chinese characteristics.
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