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We worked actively to support deputies in carrying out their activities.

Deputy attendance of inspection tours and research projects surpassed
1,600, leading to the compilation of over 100 reports. A total of 473 deputies
participated in inspections and discussions organized by the State Council
and its departments; 471 attended court trials or participated in meetings,
forums, inspections, and research activities organized by the Supreme

People’s Court; and 465 took part in inspections and meetings organized by
procuratorial bodies.

We arranged for Hong Kong deputies to the NPC to remotely inspect
economic and social development and ethnic solidarity in Xinjiang via video.
We also arranged for NPC deputies from Macao to travel to Hainan province
to conduct research on the development of the free trade port there.

Some NPC deputies from provinces and municipalities including
Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui carried out joint field research and
inspections on issues such as the enforcement and supervision of the Yangtze
River basin fishing ban.

We helped deputies improve their ability to perform duties.

We arranged for NPC deputies to study the history of the CPC, the
People’s Republic of China, reform and opening up, and the development of
socialism, and we arranged for them to attend celebrations of the Party’s
centenary in-person or tune in via video. We also arranged visits to

revolutionary sites for deputies from Hong Kong and Macao to strengthen
their love for the Party, the country, and socialism. We built an online NPC
deputy work platform. We held six online and offline special study sessions
with a total deputy attendance of 5,824.

In performing their duties, our deputies faithfully represented the
interests and will of the people, showed a strong sense of commitment to the
people as their elected representatives, and reflected public opinion in their

proposals and suggestions. This proved that China’s socialist democracy not
only has a complete set of institutions and procedures, but it also has
full-fledged civil participation, and it is a whole-process people’s democracy
to the broadest extent, of the truest nature, and to the greatest effect possible.

In line with the overall arrangements of the Party Central Committee and
in accordance with the newly-revised Electoral Law, we stepped up guidance
on elections of people’s congresses at the county and township levels to

ensure their success. At present, elections for new people’s congresses at the
county and township levels have been largely completed across the country,

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