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recovery of stolen state assets. Our work in this area has not only
demonstrated the achievements of reforms to the national supervision system
and the improvement in our national governance capacity, but also marked a

new step forward in the NPC’s exercise of oversight of the State Council, the
National Commission of Supervision, the Supreme People’s Court, and the
Supreme People’s Procuratorate.

We strengthened oversight of law enforcement and judicial work.

We heard and deliberated the State Council’s report on the efforts of
public security organs to standardize law enforcement, in a bid to assist these
organs in enforcing the law with a stricter, fairer, more measured, and more
procedure-based approach.

In response to the new characteristics of civil cases and new crimes, we
heard and deliberated a report from the Supreme People’s Court on
strengthening the adjudication of civil cases to support sustained and healthy
economic and social development in accordance with the law, along with the
Supreme People’s Court’s mid-term report on pilot reforms for streamlining
civil litigation procedures. We also heard and deliberated the report from the
Supreme People’s Procuratorate on applying the system of sentence
bargaining in criminal cases. As a result of these efforts, we were able to

enhance civil trial quality and efficiency and improving the work
performance in the handling of criminal cases, achieved both judicial
impartiality and greater efficiency, and coordinated political, legal, and social
implications in the handling of cases.

We continued to intensify law enforcement inspections.

In order to coordinate the Covid-19 response with economic and social
development, and to meet the demands and expectations of our deputies and

the general public, the Standing Committee inspected the implementation of
its decision to completely ban the illegal trade and consumption of wild
animals, the Wildlife Protection Law, the Law on the Prevention and Control
of Soil Pollution, the Law on Promoting Agricultural Mechanization, the
Charity Law, the Law on the Provision of Public Cultural Services, and the
Law against Unfair Competition. We also heard and deliberated a report from
the State Council on its handling of the Standing Committee report on the
inspections of the implementation of the decision to completely ban the illegal

trade and consumption of wild animals and the Wildlife Protection Law and
on the recommendations of its deliberations. We launched public awareness
raising campaigns for the relevant laws to ensure the fulfillment of legal
responsibilities in line with specific legal stipulations.

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