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mission to carry out oversight and enact and revise laws, but they are also
referred to by central Party and government departments in their decision
making processes and in carrying out their duties.

Fourth, we upheld the principal position of deputies and supported and
assisted them in the law-based performance of their duties.

Keeping our duty to serve deputies firmly in mind, we fully implemented
the 35 measures to strengthen and enhance our work related to NPC deputies
that emphasized close contact between the Standing Committee and deputies
and between deputies and the public, so as to further raise the standard of
this work.

We earnestly handled proposals and suggestions made by deputies.

We deliberated all 506 of the proposals that were referred to us by the
Presidium of the Third Session of the 13th NPC. Among these, 22 legislative

items addressed in 118 of the proposals were deliberated and adopted, or are
currently under deliberation, and 58 legislative items addressed in 168 of the
proposals have been included in our five-year legislative program or annual
legislative plan.

A total of 9,180 suggestions made by deputies were referred to 194
organizations for handling, with feedback given to deputies. Approximately
71.28 percent of the issues raised in these suggestions were either solved or

addressed with plans to resolve them over time. Issues drawn from 181
suggestions that cover nine areas were selected as key suggestions and
handled under the oversight of special committees. This helped to resolve a
number of difficult and key issues of broad public concern.

More than 400 suggestions which were raised when the NPC was not in
session were handed over to 98 organizations for examination and handling.
We ensured that every suggestion was dealt with as swiftly as possible with

feedback.

We improved the mechanism for coordinating the handling of proposals
and suggestions raised by our deputies, facilitated the resolution of issues of
the greatest concern, and pushed forward the translation of proposals and
suggestions into policies and measures that promote development, improve
public wellbeing, and bring tangible benefits to the people.

We maintained close contact with deputies.

Members of the Standing Committee got in touch with 439 deputies and

listened carefully to their views and suggestions through such channels as

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