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transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, reduction of taxes and fees,
allocation and use of government funds for ecological conservation and

environmental protection, and the state of the environment and fulfillment of
environmental protection targets in 2018 and 2019. On this basis, we facilitated
efforts to resolve prominent issues of immediate concern to the people, and
promoted supply-side structural reform and high-quality economic development.
We conducted research on 7 special initiatives, namely those for combatting
poverty, invigorating border regions inhabited by ethnic minorities and benefitting
the people living there, forestalling and defusing systemic financial risks,
responding to the challenge of population aging, managing and reforming old-age

insurance funds, implementing the National Security Law, and reforming the
supervision system and implementing the Supervision Law, and put forward
suggestions for enhancing and improving relevant work.

We strengthened oversight over judicial work. After hearing and deliberating
the report on the work of people’s courts to ensure enforcement of rulings in 2018,
we strengthened follow-up oversight in 2019 by hearing and deliberating the
report on the handling of related comments of Standing Committee members, thus

consolidating the progress that has been made in generally resolving difficulties in
the enforcement of court rulings. We heard and deliberated the report on
enhancing criminal trials in order to promote reform of the criminal procedure
system with a focus on court proceedings. We heard and deliberated a report on
the public interest litigation work of procuratorates and carried out a special
inquiry on this topic in order to ensure that procuratorial organs effectively fulfill

their legally prescribed duties to safeguard national interests and the interests of
the public.

We conducted law enforcement inspections in line with legal stipulations. We
improved working mechanisms and methods for inspecting law enforcement, and
carried out inspection in strict accordance with legal stipulations, pushing relevant
parties to strictly implement laws and rigorously perform their legally prescribed
duties. We inspected the enforcement of six laws, including the Law on Promoting
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, the Law on the Prevention and Control of

Water Pollution, the Higher Education Law, the Law on Promoting Employment,
the Law on Renewable Energy, and the Fisheries Law. We also conducted two
special inquiries on the basis of our deliberations on inspection reports regarding
the enforcement of the Law on Promoting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution. While inspecting

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