II. Strengthening oversight over compliance with laws and over the work of the State Council, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate

General Secretary Xi Jinping stated that “the important principle behind the system of people’s congresses and the basic requirement of its institutional design are to subject the exercise of power by all state organs and their employees to constraints and oversight.” The NPC and its Standing Committee must perform their constitutional and legal duties of oversight and safeguard the unity, sanctity, and authority of the country’s legal system.

1. We will increase efforts to monitor and inspect compliance with laws.

Adapting to the new situation in fully advancing the law-based governance of the country, we will facilitate the State Council’s efforts toward carrying out administration in accordance with the law and the efforts of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate to administer justice in an impartial way, ensuring that laws are enforced properly and effectively.

We will arrange inspections of compliance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, the Law on the Protection of Consumers’ Rights and Interests, the Agriculture Law, the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy, the Law on Guaranteeing the Rights and Interests of Senior Citizens, and the Law on Vocational Education. We will intensify efforts to inspect law enforcement and make our work in this regard more authoritative, targeted, and effective.

2. We will step up oversight over the work of the State Council, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.

Adapting to the new normal in the country’s economic development, we will give impetus to implementing the major policies and plans of the CPC Central Committee.

We will listen to and deliberate on reports from the State Council regarding its work and progress in promoting deeper integrated development of information technology and industrialization through the application of new advances in information technology, facilitating development of the pilot free trade zones, developing the system of public cultural services, stabilizing and improving rural land contract relations, and deepening reform of the medical and health care systems.

We will strengthen oversight over judicial activities, and listen to and deliberate on the Supreme People’s Court’s report on judgments in administrative cases and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s report on its oversight over the enforcement of penal decisions.