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journey to build China into a modern socialist nation in all respects and
achieve the Second Centenary Goal.

With great historical initiative, tremendous political courage, and a strong
sense of responsibility, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping
at its core responded calmly to changes and a pandemic of a magnitude not

seen in a century and achieved new major progress in advancing all areas of
the Party and country’s endeavors. This further demonstrated the strong
leadership of the Party Central Committee, the boundless might amassed by
more than 1.4 billion Chinese people under the Party’s leadership, and the
great strengths of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it fills us with
greater confidence and resolve as we forge ahead on the new journey and
make greater contributions in the new era.

2021 was also a year of particular importance in the history of the people’s

congress system. The Party Central Committee held the first-ever Central
People’s Congress Work Conference, where General Secretary Xi Jinping gave
an important speech, providing profound answers to a number of major
theoretical and practical issues concerning the development of socialist
democracy with Chinese characteristics and the preservation and
improvement of the people’s congress system in the new era. He described

the system of people’s congresses as one of the Party’s major institutional
achievements of the past century, offered a systematic explanation of the
important concept of whole-process people’s democracy, and put forward the
guiding thought, major principles, and main tasks for enhancing and
improving the work of people’s congresses. The Party Central Committee
then issued the Guidelines on Upholding and Improving the People’s
Congress System and Enhancing and Improving the Work of People’s

Congresses in the New Era. The Party Central Committee’s major plans and
General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech pointed the way forward and
provided us with fundamental guidance for carrying out the work of people’s
congresses in the new era.

Over the past year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central
Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the NPC Standing Committee
remained closely aligned with the Party Central Committee’s major decisions
and plans, the people’s aspirations for a better life, and the need to modernize

China’s system and capacity for governance. We performed our duties in
accordance with the law and fulfilled our responsibilities as we embarked on
a new journey to develop China into a modern socialist nation in all respects.
Our main work of the past year was as follows.

First, we further improved laws relating to the Constitution and
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