2. We increased efforts to provide study and training sessions and develop work exchanges.

The Standing Committee held four study sessions for leading members of the standing committees of county-level people’s congresses, which were attended by over 1,100 county-level standing committee chairpersons or vice-chairpersons from Jilin, Tibet, and nine other provinces and autonomous regions, and achieved positive results .

The Standing Committee invited leading members of the standing committees of provincial-level people’s congresses to attend all its meetings as non-voting observers, listened carefully to their comments and suggestions, and organized briefings on a regular basis to promptly inform them about the work of the Standing Committee.

We held a national seminar on local legislation to summarize and exchange ideas about the good experiences and methods in the legislative work of local people’s congresses. We invited leading members of local people’s congresses’ legislative affairs bodies to observe meetings of the Standing Committee. The special committees and working bodies of the Standing Committee strengthened their contact and exchange with relevant bodies of local people’s congresses through forums and training sessions.

At the same time, local people’s congresses actively supported the work of the NPC, and did a great deal to assist the Standing Committee in carrying out law enforcement inspections, conducting research for pending legislation, ensuring services for deputies, and carrying out foreign relations work, thus greatly helping raise the whole work of people’s congresses to a new level.

3. We solicited comments and suggestions from local people’s congresses and NPC deputies on the work of the Standing Committee and on the drafting of this work report.

The General Office of the Standing Committee organized 12 research teams. These teams, each led by a leading official at the ministerial level, held forums in localities during which they solicited opinions from leading members of the standing committees of 31 provincial-level people’s congresses and from 549 NPC deputies from 35 delegations.

The valuable comments and suggestions we collected during our studies are an expression of the concern and expectations that local people’s congresses and NPC deputies have for the work of the NPC, and have been instrumental in helping us improve our work.