International guests learn about how China’s democracy works

On September 11, 2023, the courtyard meeting room in Caochang Sitiao Hutong welcomed several special guests: Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) president Duarte Pacheco, president of the IPU Bureau of Women Parliamentarians Cynthia López Castro, president of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace Ahmed Al Jarwan and secretary general Zoran Ilievski. They gathered to have discussions and exchanges on the practice of the system of people's congresses in China and the philosophy of whole-process people's democracy at the grassroots level.

Seminar offers opportunities for inter-parliamentary exchanges

Also known as the Fifth Seminar for Parliaments of Developing Countries, the theme was, "Stronger Inter-Parliamentary Exchanges for Better Achievement of the SDGs." Twenty-nine senior parliamentarians and officials from nine countries, including Cambodia, Guyana, Honduras, Kiribati, Laos, the Maldives, South Africa, Suriname and Thailand, gathered in China to enhance exchanges and learn from each other’s development.

NPC deputies call for further efforts to regulate livestreaming industry

Both NPC deputies suggested that judicial authorities focus more on problems in the emerging business, provide stronger legal education for the market entities and help boost consumers' awareness of self-protection.

Newly-amended accounting law to provide stronger legal guarantee for curbing accounting violations

China's top legislator to visit Uzbekistan, Russia

China's top legislator Zhao Leji will pay an official goodwill visit to Uzbekistan and Russia from July 6 to 13.

Foreign diplomats and envoys get a firsthand look at China’s whole-process people’s democracy in action

Diplomats from 36 countries, including Mozambique, El Salvador and Seychelles, were invited to visit the Nanmofang township legislative liaison station, which is under the local legislative outreach office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China located in the Chaoyang district in Beijing.

Feeling the vitality of China’s thriving development

At the invitation of Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, speaker of the House of Assembly Patricia Deveaux and president of the Senate Julie LaShell Adderley of the Bahamian parliament jointly led a delegation to visit China from April 7 to 12.

Senior Chinese legislator urges thorough enforcement of Yellow River Protection Law

Li Hongzhong, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), has urged strengthening ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin and promoting thorough enforcement of the Yellow River Protection Law.