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work from citizens and organizations. Through review, we compelled relevant
bodies to correct 506 normative documents that conflicted with the Constitution or

other laws, thus safeguarding the unity, sanctity, and authority of the country’s
legal system.

We conducted activities to publicize the Constitution, raising people’s
awareness of it. We organized six ceremonies for 18 officials to publicly pledge
allegiance to the Constitution when they took office, with members of the
Chairperson’s Council chairing the ceremonies and administering the oath, thus
enhancing constitutional awareness among public servants. We hosted a
symposium for the sixth National Constitution Day with the theme of fostering the

spirit of the Constitution and promoting modernization of China’s governance
system and capacity for governance, and encouraged all levels and localities to
conduct various activities to promote the Constitution. We hosted a symposium to
mark the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the Basic Law of the Macao
Special Administrative Region in order to promote awareness and implementation
of the policy of One Country, Two Systems, the Constitution, and the Basic Law.

II. We continued to improve the Chinese socialist legal system.

With a focus on comprehensively advancing the rule of law, we placed equal

emphasis on making new laws, revising existing ones, abolishing those that are
unnecessary, and interpreting laws that need clarification, stressed both quality
and efficiency, strengthened legislative work in important fields, and made
constant efforts to legislate in a more well-conceived, democratic, and law-based
manner.

In coordination with efforts to comprehensively deepen reform, we worked to
guarantee that major reforms have a legal basis. After adopting the Foreign

Investment Law, we completed its integration with relevant laws by revising a
package of laws on construction, fire protection, digital signatures, urban and rural
planning, vehicle and vessel taxes, trademarks, unfair competition, and
administrative approval. We revised the Law of the People’s Republic of China on
Protecting the Investments of Taiwan Compatriots in order to ensure that our
Taiwan compatriots are able to share in the benefits of reform. We deliberated draft

laws on the urban construction and maintenance tax, the deed tax, and export
control, authorized the State Council to temporarily adjust the application of
relevant laws and regulations in pilot free trade zones, and authorized jurisdiction
of Macao’s port zone at Hengqin port and its extended areas to the Macao SAR, all

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