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procedures were about to expire, we performed a comprehensive review and
then revised the Civil Procedure Law accordingly to consolidate reform
achievements. This led to the improvement of the judicial confirmation
process, small claims litigation procedures, and simplified procedures and

enhanced judicial efficiency and impartiality. We made a decision to
authorize the Supreme People’s Court to launch reform trials for defining the
respective adjudicative functions of the four levels of courts. We made a
decision on establishing the Chengdu-Chongqing Financial Court to foster a
law-based, healthy financial environment.

Over the past year, we formulated 17 laws, revised 22 laws, and made 10
decisions on legal issues and major issues, and we are currently reviewing 19
legislative proposals. We ratified 6 bilateral treaties and international

conventions. With these timely efforts, we improved China’s socialist legal
system in step with the times, we responded to the new development
requirements of the Party and the country in the new era, and we translated
the Party’s propositions into the will of the state and the collective action of
the people.

Third, we exercised more stringent and effective oversight of the lawful
performance of the State Council, the National Commission of Supervision,
the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate to

ensure the full implementation of the Party Central Committee’s major
decisions and plans.

An important principle of the people’s congress system and a basic
requirement of its institutional design is that the power of all state organs and
their staff must be subject to oversight and constraints. Last year, we
diligently performed our constitutionally and legally prescribed oversight
duties and employed various statutory oversight methods to help solve
prominent issues impeding China’s economic and social development. Our

oversight ensured that laws and regulations were effectively implemented,
that all state organs performed their duties and carried out their work within
the scope prescribed by the Constitution and the law, and that administrative,
supervisory, adjudicatory, and procuratorial powers were properly exercised
in accordance with the law.

Committed to exercising appropriate, effective, and law-based oversight,
we heard and deliberated 31 reports, carried out inspections on the

implementation of 6 laws, conducted 2 special inquiries, launched 7 research
projects, and adopted 1 resolution.

The NPC special committees and the Standing Committee working bodies

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