First, we strengthened the implementation of the Constitution and oversight of constitutional compliance to safeguard the integrity of the rule of law.

Ensuring the full implementation of the Constitution is the most important task as well as the base for comprehensively advancing law-based governance and developing China into a socialist nation under the rule of law. The Standing Committee earnestly performed its legally prescribed duty of ensuring the implementation of the Constitution and strengthening oversight of constitutional compliance, thus safeguarding the sanctity and authority of the Constitution.

We improved laws relating to the Constitution.

We revised the National Flag Law and the National Emblem Law to help better protect our country's reputation and foster the spirit of patriotism, so that protecting the dignity of the national flag and national emblem becomes a conscious act for all citizens. We revised the Electoral Law and increased as appropriate the number of deputies to people's congresses at the county and township levels, so as to consolidate the foundation for the people's congress system. To meet the targets set for national supervision system reform, we formulated the Law on Administrative Action for Public Employees and deliberated the draft supervisors law.

We revised the NPC Organic Law and the NPC Rules of Procedure for the first time since their promulgation more than 30 years ago, and submitted the draft revisions to this session for your deliberation. When drafting the revisions, we fully implemented the political principle of upholding the leadership of the Party, drew on new experiences and achievements in practicing the people's congress system, and refined the functions and working procedures of the Presidium of the NPC session and Chairperson's Council, with a focus on the NPC's organizational system, working mechanisms, and operating models. These revisions fully reflect the new changes in the NPC's composition and functions following the 2018 reform of Party and state institutions. We are confident that the joint effort of all deputies will ensure the successful revision of these two laws before they become the procedural laws under which the NPC and its Standing Committee perform their duties efficiently and in accordance with the law, as well as the laws which guarantee the unity of Party leadership, the running of the country by the people, and law-based governance.

We worked to ensure constitutional order and the rule of law in the HKSAR.

The disturbances that occurred in Hong Kong in 2019 over the proposed revisions to the extradition bill had a severe impact on the rule of law and public order. They also presented a serious challenge to the policy of One Country, Two Systems. After the decision on establishing a sound legal system and implementation mechanism for the HKSAR to safeguard national security was adopted at the Third Session of the 13th NPC, the Standing Committee acted swiftly in holding two consecutive meetings in June last year, at which the Law on Safeguarding National Security in the HKSAR was deliberated and adopted. A decision was made to add this law to the list of laws in Annex III to the Basic Law of the HKSAR, which shall be applied locally after promulgation by the region. This has filled a long-existing legislative vacuum with regard to national security in Hong Kong.

The adoption of a decision for the sixth Hong Kong Legislative Council to continue to discharge its duties in August 2020, was followed by the Standing Committee's November decision on issues relating to the qualifications for members of Hong Kong Legislative Council. Another decision will be adopted at this session regarding the improvement to the electoral system of the HKSAR, and to make this package of legal measures more complete, the Standing Committee will make revisions to the relevant law on the basis of that decision.

The NPC will stand firm in safeguarding China's sovereignty, security, and development interests in accordance with the law. We will continue to perform our legally mandated duties and provide legal safeguards for ensuring constitutional order in Hong Kong, countering forces seeking "Hong Kong independence," ensuring that it is those who love our country that administer Hong Kong, and maintaining long-term prosperity and stability in the region.

We promoted the spirit of the Constitution.

According to the decision and plan of the CPC Central Committee and the provisions of the Constitution, the Standing Committee made a decision, which was followed by President Xi Jinping's signing of a presidential order, to award Zhong Nanshan the Medal of the Republic, and award Zhang Boli, Zhang Dingyu, and Chen Wei the national honorary title of People's Hero in order to commend their noble character and outstanding achievements. We organized six ceremonies for 23 officials to publicly pledge allegiance to the Constitution as they took office in order to guide public servants to raise their awareness of the Constitution, uphold its principles, and fulfill the missions entrusted to them therein. We organized activities and held a symposium for the seventh National Constitution Day in an effort to foster a positive environment for honoring, studying, observing, upholding, and applying the Constitution throughout society.

We conducted constitutionality reviews and put on record and reviewed normative documents.

We responded to Constitution-related concerns and worked to ensure all laws, regulations, and policies comply with the Constitution both in letter and in spirit. In 2020, we received a total of 1,310 pieces of legislation submitted for recordkeeping and examined them one by one. These included administrative regulations, local statutes, autonomous regulations and locally-specific regulations, regulations for special economic zones, judicial interpretations, and laws of special administrative regions. We reviewed normative documents and carried out focused overhauls covering epidemic containment, wildlife protection, implementation of the Civil Code, food and drug safety, and the business environment. We identified 3,372 normative documents in need of revision or repeal, and urged the relevant parties to make prompt corrections.

We successfully carried out reviews upon request and reviews on handover items. Last year, we received a total of 5,146 suggestions for review from citizens and organizations. One by one we examined the 3,378 suggestions which fell within the scope of our review and gave opinions on how to deal with them, and we transferred all other suggestions to relevant agencies. We received 58 local statutes handed over to us for review from relevant departments, of which 27 were forwarded to formulating bodies for revision or abolition. We worked to encourage local people's congresses to set up a system for hearing reports on the work of putting on record and reviewing normative documents. We improved the institutions and capacity building for reviewing these documents, and officially launched the national database of laws and regulations to provide foundational support for legislative activities and for recording and review of normative documents.