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technology capabilities, implementing the Development Plan for the
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, coordinating the

development of city clusters along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River,
systematically planning for new types of infrastructure, promoting
high-quality development of multimodal transportation, and steering healthy

development of the online gaming industry.
With people’s wellbeing in mind, we convened a consultative meeting of
the Standing Committee on elevating the Peaceful China initiative to a higher

level, and organized consultations on consolidating and expanding
achievements in poverty reduction and addressing population aging.
We offered suggestions, inspired by field studies, on a wide range of

issues, including boosting development and raising living standards in border
areas in the new era, building a high-quality education system, reinforcing the
nationwide network for safeguarding public health, preserving and

developing traditional Chinese medicine resources, building more public
medical centers and clinics in rural areas and improving their management,
formulating a social assistance law, and bolstering development and security

in border areas.
With a view to advancing ecological progress, we intensified oversight of
the handling of a key proposal on strengthening environmental protection

and measures for adapting to climate change on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
We also organized consultations concerning ecological progress in the Yellow
River basin, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the protection of

ecosystems at key lakes, and urban sewage treatment.
In support of high-level opening up, we held consultative forums on
implementing key opening up measures in the 14th Five-Year Plan, boosting

China’s overall competitiveness in foreign trade, developing the Hainan Free
Trade Port, and raising the quality and effectiveness of law enforcement and
judicial practice in foreign-related areas.

3．Enriching the content of CPPCC consultation and performing the functions of
the CPPCC as a specialized consultative body more effectively
We reinforced the fundamental function of special committees, adopted

new means and methods of consultation, and reached greater depth in
consultations, thus improving our performance in our work.
We initiated consultative forums for specialists, bringing together

specialists from different social sectors and academic disciplines for rounds of
in-depth, closed-door consultations. Over the past year, 36 such forums were

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