The Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress held a preparatory meeting
The Bureau and Secretary-General of the General Assembly are elected
The agenda of the Conference was voted on
The Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) held a preparatory meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of 4 March. Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, presided over the meeting. The meeting elected the presidium and secretary general of the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress, and voted to approve the agenda of the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress.
On the morning of March 4, the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress held a preparatory meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, presided over the meeting. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi.
There are 2,956 deputies to the 14th National People's Congress. As of 3 March, 2,897 delegates had reported to the secretariat of the conference. The preparatory meeting on the 4th was attended by 2,853 people and 103 absent, and the number of attendees met the quorum.
Zhao Leji announced that the second session of the 14th National People's Congress will be held on March 5, 2024, and all preparations for the congress have been completed.
Zhao Leji pointed out that the guiding ideology of the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress is: to be guided by the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", adhere to the organic unity of the party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and governing the country according to law, develop whole-process people's democracy, and adhere to, improve and operate the people's congress systemClosely focus on the overall situation of the work of the party and the country, conscientiously perform the duties entrusted by the constitution and the law, successfully complete the tasks of the conference, and hold a conference that holds high the banner, works hard, and forges ahead in unity, and mobilizes the people of all ethnic groups across the country to unite more closely around the first comrade as the core, strengthen confidence, work hard and move forward bravely, and unite and struggle for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The preparatory meeting voted to elect the presidium and secretary general of the Second Session of the 14 th National People's Congress. The presidium of the conference is composed of 181 people, and Li Hongzhong is the secretary general of the conference.
According to the agenda of the meeting adopted by vote, the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress will deliberate on the work report, review the report on the implementation of the 2023 national economic and social development plan and the draft national economic and social development plan for 2024, the draft national economic and social development plan for 2024, the report on the implementation of the 2023 national and local budgets and the draft local budget, and the draft local budget for 2024. To deliberate the proposal of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the "Organic Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised Draft)", to deliberate the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, to deliberate the work report of the Supreme People's Court, and to deliberate the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Li Hongzhong, Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Zheng Jianbang, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, He Wei, Wu Weihua, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Lobsang Jiangcun, and Xuekrat Zakir, vice chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Liu Qi, secretary general of the NPC Standing Committee, attended the meeting.
*: Xinhua News Agency).