The sails are flying, the journey is not over, and the spring tide is rising again in the land of China.
On the occasion of the upcoming convening of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress in 2024, the fourth issue of Qiushi magazine published an important article by the general secretary of the People's Republic of China entitled "Adhere to and Improve the People's Congress System and Ensure that the People Are the Masters of the Country". In this important article, the general secretary scientifically summed up history, focused on the future of mankind, and made an important conclusion: "The implementation of the people's congress system in China is a great creation of the Chinese people in the history of the human political system, a basic conclusion drawn by profoundly summing up the bitter lessons of China's political life since modern times, the historical result of the radical changes and turbulent development of Chinese society over the past 100 years and more, and an inevitable choice for the Chinese people to turn over and become masters and take control of their own destiny." ”
People's democracy is the banner that the Communist Party of China has always held high. Since its birth, our party has carried out unremitting explorations and struggles to realize that the people are masters of the country, successively put forward political propositions such as workers' and peasants' ownership and people's democracy, and explored the establishment of such democratic forms as the Soviet of Workers' Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies, the "Three-Three System" Senate, and the People's Congresses of all walks of life. In August 1949, after the sociologist Fei Xiaotong participated in the various congresses of Beiping, he was full of emotion: "When I stepped into the venue, I saw many people, wearing **, overalls, short shirts, cheongsam, suits, robes, and a melon hat - these many people knew different at a glance, and they would discuss problems together in a venue, which was the first time in my life. ”
Historian Chen Yuan also attended the meeting, and he sighed: "I have never seen such a meeting. Because no matter what kind of regime China has in the past, there is only feudalism or fake democracy, and none of them have really done anything for ......the peopleNow it is different, since the liberation, I have quietly observed all the measures and all the decrees, which are basically different from before. ”
The vicissitudes of life have changed the world. In September 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was held. On behalf of the will of the people of all nationalities throughout the country and acting on behalf of the functions and powers of the National People's Congress, the meeting adopted the "Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference," which has provisional constitutional status, and declared that New China would implement the people's congress system. Chen Mingshu, a famous patriotic general and democrat, said in a speech at the meeting: "Because of the historical lessons of the Chinese revolution, we have found this first-class organizational system that is suitable for China's national conditions and the needs of the people of Chinese according to China's historical development. In September 1954, the first session of the National People's Congress was convened and the Constitution of the People's Republic of China was adopted, marking the formal establishment of the people's congress system.
Along the way, the people's congress system has provided an important institutional guarantee for the party to lead the people to create a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. As the general secretary profoundly pointed out in the important article "Upholding and Improving the People's Congress System and Ensuring that the People Are the Masters of the Country": "Practice has proved that the people's congress system is a good system that conforms to China's national conditions and reality, embodies the nature of a socialist country, ensures that the people are the masters of the country, and guarantees the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. ”
The people's congress system adheres to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adheres to the basic principles of the Marxist theory of the state, adapts to the national system of people's democracy, and effectively ensures that the country advances along the socialist road. The people's congress system insists that all state power belongs to the people, ensures that the people are the masters of the country to the greatest extent, organically integrates the party's leadership, the people as the masters of the country, and the rule of law, and effectively ensures that the country's governance jumps out of the historical cycle of the rise and fall of chaos. The people's congress system correctly handles a series of major political relations that have a bearing on the future and destiny of the country, realizes national unification and efficient organization of various undertakings, safeguards national unity and ethnic unity, and effectively ensures that the country's political life is both full of vitality and stable and orderly. Regarding the significant advantages and great efficacy of the people's congress system, the general secretary used the "three effective guarantees" to make an incisive exposition in this important article.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Comrade Zheng has been based on a new historical position, from the strategic height of adhering to and improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, unswervingly promoting the theoretical and practical innovation of the people's congress system, and promoting the work of the people's congress to achieve historic achievements.
The party's leadership over the work of the people's congress has been strengthened in an all-round way. With Comrade *** as the core, we have made a series of arrangements for strengthening the construction of the people's congress system and issued a series of guiding documents. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have listened to the work reports of the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress every year The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adheres to the centralized and unified leadership, resolutely implements the major decisions and deployments, and the major problems and important situations in the work of the National People's Congress are reported to the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in a timely manner.
The implementation of the constitution has been raised to a new level. In 2018, the National People's Congress (NPC) passed the Fifth Constitutional Amendment, laying a solid foundation for the rule of law for the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Strengthen the implementation and supervision of the Constitution, formulate the Supervision Law, the Law on the Protection of Heroes and Martyrs, and the National Anthem Law, revise the National Flag Law and other relevant laws of the Constitution, and implement the systems for awarding honors and amnesties as provided for in the Constitution. Adjust and establish the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress. Establish a constitutional oath system in the form of legislation and establish a national Constitution Day. Safeguard the constitutional order of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as determined by the Constitution and the Basic Law, and enact the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, so as to provide a more solid legal guarantee for the steady and successful implementation of "one country, two systems".
The socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics is improving day by day. A number of laws that are urgently needed for national governance and necessary to meet the people's growing needs for a better life have been promulgated or amended and improved. Codification of the Civil Code. Formulate and revise a number of laws, such as the Law on Foreign Sanctions and the Law on Foreign Sanctions, and basically form a legal system. A number of laws have been formulated and revised, such as the protection of the Yangtze River and the protection of black soil, and a legal system for ecological and environmental protection has been initially formed. The Foreign Investment Law and the Hainan Free Port Law have been enacted, and the Land Management Law and the Anti-Monopoly Law have been amended to confirm and consolidate the achievements of reform in the form of legislation. A series of authorization decisions and reform decisions have been made to ensure the orderly progress of reform measures.
Correct supervision, effective supervision, and supervision according to law should be practiced. The supervision work of the people's congress focuses on the decision-making and deployment of the people, and the people's thoughts and wishes, to ensure that the power given by the people is always used to seek happiness for the people. Focusing on the decision-making and deployment of the "three major battles", we will make overall plans for the use of statutory supervision forms and continue to carry out follow-up supervision. Promote the reform of budget review and supervision to expand the focus of expenditure budgets and policies, achieve full coverage of the supervision of the management of the four major types of state-owned assets, and continue to strengthen the review and supervision of local debts. Improve the methods and methods of supervision, introduce methods for law enforcement inspections, and improve opinions on special inquiries.
Give better play to the role of people's congress deputies. Nearly 3,000 deputies to the National People's Congress faithfully represent the interests and will of the people and perform their duties in accordance with the law, demonstrating the responsibility and good demeanor of the deputies in the new era. It has introduced 35 specific measures to strengthen and improve the work of NPC deputies, and promoted the institutionalization, standardization, and normalization of the work of NPC deputies. We should conscientiously handle the motions and suggestions of the NPC deputies, strengthen the ties between the NPC Standing Committee and the NPC deputies and between the NPC deputies and the people, and expand the participation of the NPC deputies in the work of the NPC Standing Committee and special committees, so that the work of the NPC can be better grounded, observe the people's feelings, gather the wisdom of the people, and benefit the people's livelihood.
The historic achievements of the work of the people's congress in the new era are fundamentally due to the fact that the general secretary is at the helm as the core and the core of the whole party, and there is the important ideological and scientific guidance of the general secretary on upholding and improving the people's congress system in the new era. To uphold and improve the people's congress system on the new journey, we must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve the "two safeguards", and unswervingly uphold the party's overall leadership over the work of the people's congress.
Editor: Wu Xiaodi, Sun Yangyang).