Providing Solid Legal Guarantee for High Quality Development through High Quality Legislation: A Review of the Legislative Work of the 14th National People's Congress and its Standing Committee in 2023

2024-02-28

Over the past year, the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress and the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, have closely focused on promoting Chinese path to modernization, based on their responsibilities, promoted the implementation of the goals and tasks set at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and contributed to building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. At the end of December 2023, the 7th meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress was held in Beijing. This is the last meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress in its first year of performance. At the meeting, a total of 13 draft laws and decisions were reviewed, of which 7 were approved. This pace and quantity will run through the legislative work for the entire year of 2023. Except for the first meeting of the Standing Committee, which did not arrange legal bills as usual, a total of 37 legal bills were reviewed in the six Standing Committee meetings, with an average of more than 6 legal bills reviewed in each meeting. 2023 is the beginning year of fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and also the first year for the 14th National People's Congress and its Standing Committee to perform their duties in accordance with the Constitution and the law. In the first year of performance, the 14th National People's Congress and its Standing Committee fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, exercised the legislative powers granted by the Constitution and laws, adhered to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people's autonomy, and the rule of law, and persisted in seeking progress while maintaining stability to promote high-quality development of legislative work. This year, following the legislative plan "roadmap" and "timetable" approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the country's legislative work has been steadily progressing, presenting distinct characteristics of heavy weight, high quality, and large quantity. As of now, a total of 6 laws have been formulated, 8 laws have been amended, and 11 decisions on relevant and major issues have been passed. Looking back on 2023, the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee adhered to the comprehensive leadership of the Party over the work of the Constitution, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. They insisted on using the Constitution as the fundamental legal basis and the highest legal norm for strengthening and improving the work of the People's Congress in the new era, and effectively assumed the legal responsibility of ensuring the implementation of the Constitution and strengthening constitutional supervision, in accordance with relevant provisions of the Constitution Multiple legal systems closely related to the implementation of systems and principles have been developed and improved to keep up with the times. The Legislative Plan of the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress is the overall blueprint for this legislative work. One of the highlights of this legislative planning is the first special study and comprehensive consideration of legal cases submitted to the National People's Congress for deliberation. This is an innovative measure to coordinate the implementation of the Constitution. It is worth mentioning that among the six newly formulated laws in 2023, five clearly stipulate that "this law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution", including the Foreign Relations Law, the Accessible Environment Construction Law, the Foreign State Immunity Law, the Patriotic Education Law, and the Food Security Law. "In accordance with the revised legislative law and the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee and the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, we have conducted a constitutional review of every draft law submitted for review by the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, studied issues related to constitutionality and put forward opinions, and achieved full coverage of the constitutional review of draft laws reviewed at the previous session," according to Hou Xiaoguang, Deputy Director of the Constitution Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, In practice, constitutional review has gradually formed some new normalized and institutionalized practices. The filing review has Chinese characteristics

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