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Xi Jinping signing and issuing the order. Through rigorous legal procedures, a
total of 23,593 criminals in nine categories received pardons. This represents

another major step in the exercise of constitutional stipulations regarding special
pardons.

In accordance with the guidelines laid out at the Fourth Plenary Session of the
19th CPC Central Committee, the Standing Committee heard and deliberated the
report of the State Council on maintaining national security in the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region. Following relevant stipulations of the Constitution
and the Basic Law of Hong Kong, we formulated and deliberated the Decision on
Establishing and Improving the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanisms for

the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to Safeguard National Security
(Draft), and made the decision to submit it to this session for review. This
represents a major move for upholding and improving the system of institutions
under the policy of One Country, Two Systems, for maintaining law-based
governance of Hong Kong, and for protecting the special administrative region’s
constitutional order as defined in the Constitution and the Basic Law that fits the
fundamental interests of all Chinese people, including those from Hong Kong. I am

confident that through the joint efforts of all deputies, we will be able to complete
this important legislative task so as to provide stronger legal guarantees for
upholding our nation’s sovereignty, security, and development interests and for
ensuring Hong Kong’s long-term prosperity and stability.

We conducted inspections of constitutional compliance and recorded and
reviewed normative documents in accordance with the law. We formulated
guidelines on the implementation of constitutional compliance inspections,
responded appropriately to concerns regarding Constitution-related issues, and

used legal processes to correct normative documents that conflicted with the
Constitution and other laws in order to ensure that the Constitution is fully
observed and enforced. We improved systems and mechanisms for putting on
record and reviewing regulations and judicial interpretations, set up a unified
digital platform for the recording and review of normative documents that covers
the whole country, and tentatively completed the national database of laws and

regulations. For the third year in a row, we heard and deliberated the work report
on the recording and review of normative documents and made it available to the
public. A total of 1,995 administrative regulations, local statutes, and judicial
interpretations and 33 local laws of the special administrative regions were
submitted for the record in 2019, and we examined 138 suggestions on our review

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