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and over two million deputies have been directly elected by more than one
billion voters.

Fifth, focusing closely on China’s overall diplomatic objectives and
tasks, we advanced the NPC’s international exchanges.

Under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s thinking on diplomacy, we adopted
more forms of international exchange. We organized 127 bilateral video

events, attended 75 international conferences via video, made 21 diplomatic
phone calls, launched 35 offline foreign affairs events, and exchanged nearly
800 diplomatic letters.

To implement diplomatic consensus between heads of state, we actively carried
out high-level exchanges and deepened bilateral exchanges between legislatures.

We held the seventh meeting of the China-Russia Parliamentary
Cooperation Committee and the first cooperation meeting between local-level
Chinese and Russian legislative bodies, and we carried out exchanges with
relevant committees of the Federal Assembly of Russia and with young

Russian parliamentarians. These activities helped to boost high-level
development of China-Russia relations in the new era.

We held online and offline exchanges with parliaments of 63 countries
and exchanged letters with foreign parliaments through 132 friendship
groups in the hope of winning support for China’s stances on certain major
issues, enhancing political trust, and promoting practical cooperation. In
response to questions related to Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan,

territorial waters, Covid-19, and human rights, we made clear China’s
position and stood firm against all forms of encirclement, suppression,
disruption, and subversion, determined to fight to the end against any
attempt to subvert the leadership of the Communist Party of China or our
country’s socialist system or to hinder or obstruct China’s advance toward
national rejuvenation.

We took an active part in multilateral parliamentary events and worked to
produce more multilateral outcomes that reflect Chinese characteristics and

approaches.

We attended the fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, the
fourth Speakers Conference of Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, and
Turkey, the seventh G20 Parliamentary Speakers Summit, the parliamentary
leaders meeting on the role of parliamentarians in strengthening international
peace and trust, the Collective Security Treaty Organization Parliamentary
Assembly, the BRICS Parliamentary Forum, the assemblies of the

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