2021 is a milestone year in the history of the party and the country, and it is also of special significance in the history of the people's Congress system. On August 8, Li Zhanshu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, reported on the work of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress. Accelerate the pace of legislative amendment, strengthen supervision and effectiveness, and strengthen the self construction of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress... Over the past year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has performed its duties in accordance with the law, fulfilled its responsibilities, continuously developed people's democracy in the whole process, and assisted high-quality development with the actual results of the work of the National People's Congress. Legislation protects the long-term stability of the country and escorts the steady start of the 14th five year plan 17 laws were enacted, 22 laws were amended, 10 decisions on legal issues and major issues were made, 19 legal cases were under consideration, and 6 decisions were made to ratify bilateral treaties and accede to international conventions... Turning to the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the "score card" of national legislation in the past year was brilliant. The report points out that the task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way is arduous and arduous, and there are many legislative needs and high requirements in various fields. "Over the past year, the legislative work of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has continued to show the characteristics of heavy weight, fast pace and high requirements." Liu Zheng, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Partner Conference of Shanxi Huaju law firm, believes that in the face of the new situation and new tasks, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress speeds up the pace of legislative work on the premise of ensuring quality, so as to provide legal guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country. Accelerating the construction of a legal system in the field of national security is an important part of the legislative work of this standing committee. This year, the legislative work further improved the national security system and provided a strong legal guarantee for the long-term stability of the country—— Formulate the land border law to safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity; Formulate the anti foreign sanctions law and build the basic legal framework of China's anti sanctions, anti-interference and anti long arm jurisdiction. "Last year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress successively deliberated and passed the data security law and the personal information protection law, which together with the previously promulgated network security law constitute the legal system for safeguarding China's network information security." Li Yuhua, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the development and Reform Commission of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said. Reform and development are inseparable from a good business environment under the rule of law. This year, the state legislated to implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern and escort high-quality development—— Review the draft amendment to the anti-monopoly law and the draft law on futures and derivatives, and support and guide the healthy development of capital; Deliberating and adopting the draft amendment to the audit law and building an audit supervision system according to law; Deliberating the revised draft of the company law and substantially adding and modifying about 70 articles; Stamp tax law has been formulated, and 12 of the current 18 taxes have been enacted. The urgent and difficult matters that the people are worried about are the focus of the legislation of the National People's Congress. This year, the national legislation responded to the people's yearning for a better life and accelerated the completion of the legal shortcomings of people's livelihood protection—— "It is suggested to establish a mechanism for the government and enterprises to share the cost of childbirth", "it is suggested to revise the draft and increase the procuratorial public interest litigation against domestic violence"... On December 23, 2021, a heated discussion was being held at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National people's Congress. Around the concerns in the revised draft law on the protection of women's rights and interests, participants held a heated discussion. Reviewing the revised draft of the law on the protection of women's rights and interests is an epitome of the positive response of the legislative work in 2021 to the new expectations of the masses. From the formulation of the personal information protection law and the deliberation of the draft anti telecom network fraud law; To amend the education law and formulate the family education promotion law; Then to the formulation of the anti food waste law, the legal aid law, and the revision of the population and family planning law... The continuous improvement of the legal system has become a strong backing for safeguarding the fundamental interests of the people. The legislative work of the National People's Congress in 2021 pays more attention to the overall planning and coordination of time and space, form and content, entity and procedure, showing distinct systematic characteristics. Strengthen supervision and effectiveness, and ensure the implementation of major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee The report shows that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adhered to correct, effective and legal supervision, listened to and considered 31 reports, inspected the implementation of six laws, conducted two special inquiries, conducted seven special investigations and made one resolution. In October 2021, the 31st meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress considered the comprehensive report of the State Council on the management of state-owned assets in 2020, and listened to and considered the special report of the State Council on the management of state-owned natural resources assets in 2020 for the first time. "This report gives a clear account of state-owned assets to the people of the whole country." Zhang Jianhui, deputy to the National People's Congress and Secretary of the Zhoukou municipal Party committee of Henan Province, said that through the supervision of the National People's Congress, while ensuring the people's right to know, participation and supervision, it is also conducive to further promoting, strengthening and standardizing the management of state-owned assets, so that state-owned assets can better serve the development of the country and benefit the people. The report points out that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has promoted the State Council to basically find out the background of 11 types of major state-owned natural resource assets owned by the whole people, and achieved full coverage of the supervision of the management of state-owned assets in four categories: state-owned assets of enterprises, state-owned assets of financial enterprises, state-owned assets of administrative institutions and state-owned natural resource assets. In terms of examining and supervising the budget and final accounts, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress examined and approved the central final accounts, involving an amount of 1.7 trillion yuan; Listen to and review the report on budget implementation, track and supervise the allocation and use of 2.8 trillion yuan of direct funds from the central government. In April 2021, the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on strengthening the examination and supervision of the central budget was revised. Practices in practice, such as full caliber review, whole process supervision, "prior", "in-process" and "afterwards" review and supervision, and online budget supervision, have been raised to legal provisions. Law enforcement inspection makes the teeth of the legal system more powerful "bite". Over the past year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has inspected the implementation of Six Laws: the enterprise bankruptcy law, the law of traditional Chinese medicine, the Animal Husbandry Law, the law on the prevention and control of environmental pollution by solid waste, the Notarization Law and the fire control law. A total of 23 inspection teams have gone to all provinces (regions and cities) for on-the-spot inspection. From "naming names and surnames" to sharp inquiry, law enforcement inspections are carried out one by one to observe the truth and seek practical results, implement correct supervision, effective supervision and legal supervision into practice, and change the pressure of supervision into the driving force of improving work. Fairness and justice are what the people want and what the people want. Carry out special research on promoting the full coverage of supervision and supervision; Hearing and deliberating the report of the Supreme People's Court on the trial of intellectual property rights and the report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on the handling of complaint cases... Strengthening the supervision of supervision and judicial work reflects the responsibility of maintaining social fairness and justice under the supervision of the National People's Congress. Develop people's democracy throughout the process and promote the National People's Congress system to be full of vitality The reason why the people's Congress is deeply rooted in the superiority and vitality of the people's Congress is that it is deeply rooted in the people's Congress system. The report points out that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress will improve the platform and carrier for the expression of democratic public opinion of the National People's Congress, improve the working mechanism of absorbing public opinion and pooling people's wisdom, promote the consultation of the National People's Congress and legislative consultation, and unify all aspects of social conditions and public opinion in the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. Over the past year, the level of service guarantee deputies to the National People's Congress in performing their duties in accordance with the law has been continuously improved—— The report shows that all 473 proposals put forward by deputies during the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress have been considered by relevant special committees. 8993 suggestions put forward by representatives during the conference were uniformly handed over to 194 undertaking units for research and handling, and all of them were completed From strengthening people's livelihood security and social governance to improving the modern economic system, from ecological environmental protection and green development to improving the organization and functions of state institutions... The opinions and suggestions of the deputies fully reflect the wishes and demands of the people, have been handled seriously, and have promoted the solution of a number of practical problems. "Over the past four years, I have put forward 29 suggestions and participated in many legislative investigations, legislative discussions and law enforcement inspections." Sun Jun, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Zhejiang Jiashan Shangpin Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., said that through personal performance of duties, he deeply realized that people's democracy is around in the whole process. Over the past year, the legislature has widely gathered the most "grounded" voices from the people—— The law working committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has established 22 grass-roots legislative contact points, of which 12 have been added, covering two-thirds of the country's provinces, driving the standing committees of the provincial and municipal people's congresses to establish more than 4700 legislative contact points. Over the past year, 34 draft laws have been publicly solicited for comments through the website of the National People's Congress of China, and more than 470000 comments have been received. Both "face-to-face" and "key-to-key", open-door legislation and democratic legislation have become a vivid portrayal of the rich forms and wide coverage of people's democracy in the whole process. Over the past year, the "roots" of deputies to the National People's Congress have become deeper and deeper among the people—— More than 220000 representative homes, Representative Liaison stations and other duty performance platforms around the country have built "bridges connecting hearts"; The network College of the National People's Congress launched 7110 courses to meet personalized learning needs; Focusing on the grass-roots front line, on the "representative channel", deputies to the National People's Congress told vivid stories of performing their duties and responded to social concerns, which aroused warm resonance The people elected me as their representative and I as their representative. The election of deputies to the National People's Congress fully reflects that China's socialist democracy is the most extensive, authentic and effective people's democracy in the whole process. The report points out that at present, the new round of the general election of county and Township People's congresses has been basically completed, and more than 2 million deputies to county and Township People's congresses have been directly elected by more than 1 billion voters across the country; At the same time, it is required to do a solid job in the election of deputies to the 14th National People's Congress, control the "entrance" of deputies, strengthen the supervision of the whole election process, and ensure that the election process is clean and the election results are satisfactory to the people. Closely following the major decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, closely following the people's expectations for a better life, and closely promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity... After a year of special significance, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has implemented the whole process of people's democracy in all aspects of legislation, supervision, deputies and other work. China's democracy has shown a new atmosphere, Gather the surging force to forge ahead on a new journey and contribute to a new era. (Xinhua News Agency)