Senior legislator calls for high-quality handling of lawmakers' suggestions

chinadaily.com.cn Updated: 2022-04-07

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Wang Chen, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and vice-chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, speaks at a meeting in Beijing on April 1 to urge high-quality handling of suggestions submitted by deputies to the 13th NPC during its fifth session. [Photo/npc.gov.cn]

Wang Chen, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, stressed continuously enhancing whole-process people's democracy, handling suggestions by lawmakers with high quality, and striving to earnestly respond to the people's voices on April 1.

Wang, also vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), made the remarks while attending a meeting in Beijing on the assignment of suggestions submitted by deputies to the 13th NPC during its fifth session held in March.

Wang said more than 2,900 NPC deputies submitted 9,203 suggestions on a wide range of issues during this year's annual session, the highest in five years, reflecting their active fulfillment of duties.

The General Office of the NPC Standing Committee, together with relevant sides, carefully sorted through and analyzed the suggestions, and then handed them over to 208 undertaking units for follow-up processing, according to Wang.

He said proper handling of lawmakers' suggestions is a legal duty of the undertaking units and also shows the spirit of the Constitution in terms of being responsible to and supervised by the people.

Suggestion-processing should be connected to efforts to address the people's urgent and key concerns, responding to the people's expectations and improving the people's livelihoods, he added.

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Wang Chen, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and vice-chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, speaks at a meeting in Beijing on April 1 to urge high-quality handling of suggestions submitted by deputies to the 13th NPC during its fifth session. [Photo/npc.gov.cn]

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