二、依法行使监督职权，加强对“一府两院”的监督 2. We
will carry out our oversight functions in accordance with the law and
strengthening oversight of the State Council, Supreme People’s Court and
Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
加强人大监督，是实施依法治国基本方略的必然要求。党的十八大提出，加强对“一府两院”的监督，加强对政府全口径预算决算的审查和监督。党的十八届三中全会强调，健全“一府两院”由人大产生、对人大负责、受人大监督制度；加强人大预算决算审查监督、国有资产监督职能；通过询问、质询、特定问题调查、备案审查等积极回应社会关切。我们要全面贯彻落实中央精神和监督法规定，推动人大监督工作迈上新台阶。
Strengthening the NPC’s oversight
is a necessary requirement for implementing the rule of law as the basic
strategy. The Eighteenth National Party Congress set forth the requirement that
people’s congresses should step up their oversight of people’s governments,
courts and procuratorates, and tighten their examination and oversight of all
government budgets and final accounts. The Third Plenary Session of the
Eighteenth CPC Central Committee stressed the need to strengthen the system
under which people’s governments, courts and procuratorates are engendered by
people’s congresses, responsible to them and subject to their oversight; the
need to strengthen people’s congresses’ function of examining and overseeing
government budgets and final accounts and overseeing state assets; and that
people’s congresses should actively respond to issues of public concern through
the use of inquiries, interpellations and investigations into specific problems
and records review. We need to fully implement the guidelines of the Central
Committee and the provisions of the Oversight Law and raise the NPC’s oversight
work to a new level.
一要坚持依法行使监督职权。人大对“一府两院”的监督，是代表国家和人民进行的具有法律效力的监督，体现了国家一切权力属于人民的宪法原则。人大监督的职权是法定的，行使职权的程序和方式也是法定的。人大及其常委会要忠实履行宪法和法律赋予的职责，既敢于监督又善于监督，确保监督工作在法定权限范围内、依照法定程序进行。
First, we need to exercise our
oversight power in accordance with the law. People’s congresses’ oversight of
the people’s governments, courts and procuratorates is legally effective
oversight exercised on behalf of the country and people, and reflects the
constitutional principle that all state power belongs to the people. People’s
congresses’ power to exercise oversight is a statuary power, as are the
procedures and methods for exercising it. The NPC and its Standing Committee
should faithfully carry out the duties conferred on it by the Constitution and laws, exercise
oversight courageously and effectively, and ensure that oversight work is done
within the legally specified limits of power and in accordance with legally
specified procedures.
二要围绕党和国家工作大局开展监督。把事关改革发展稳定全局的重大问题和人民群众普遍关注的热点难点问题作为监督重点，加强对宪法和法律实施的监督，强化对权力运行的制约和监督，推动中央重大决策部署的贯彻落实；正确处理监督与支持“一府两院”工作的关系，推进“一府两院”依法行政、公正司法，维护公民、法人和其他组织的合法权益。
Second, we need to exercise
oversight in light of the Party and country’s work. We need to focus oversight
on major reform, development and stability issues and on sensitive issues of
particular concern to the people; strengthen oversight of compliance with the Constitution and laws; strengthen
constraints on and oversight of the exercise of power; give impetus to the
implementation of the Central Committee’s major policy decisions and agendas;
correctly balance overseeing the State Council, Supreme People’s Court and
Supreme People’s Procuratorate and supporting their work, and see to it that
they administer affairs in accordance with the law and administer justice
fairly; and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal
persons and other organizations.
三要完善监督工作方式方法。继续开展专题询问，完善组织方式和工作机制，增强针对性和实效性。健全对行政法规、地方性法规、司法解释等规范性文件的备案审查制度。改进执法检查、监督调研方式，认真听取和反映民意，有的放矢地提出有分量的意见和建议。督促有关方面认真研究处理常委会组成人员审议意见，切实改进工作。
Third, we need to improve the way
oversight work is carried out. We will continue to carry out inquiries on
special topics, improve methods of organization and work mechanisms, and make
work more targeted and effective. We will improve the system for records review
of administrative regulations, local statutes, judicial interpretations and
other normative documents. We will improve the way we inspect compliance with
laws, exercise oversight and conduct investigations and studies,
conscientiously listen to and respond to people’s concerns, and raise weighty
criticisms and suggestions with a definite purpose in mind. We will exhort
those, to whom Standing Committee members have made suggestions after
deliberations, to conscientiously look into and handle these suggestions and
improve their work in earnest.
按照上述监督工作原则和思路，今年常委会监督工作的主要内容有：一是检查旅游法、专利法的实施情况，推动法律全面正确实施。二是听取审议计划、预算报告以及中央决算报告和审计工作报告，审查批准2013年中央决算，听取审议国家财政水利资金投入和使用情况报告，开展部门预算编制管理情况专题调研，推动贯彻落实稳中求进工作总基调，把改革创新贯穿于经济社会发展各个领域各个环节，切实提高经济发展质量和效益。三是听取审议国务院关于深化行政审批制度改革、加强金融监管防范金融风险等报告，开展公务员法实施情况专题调研，推动中央全面深化改革决策部署的贯彻落实，加快重要领域和关键环节改革。四是听取审议国务院关于节能减排工作情况的报告，检查大气污染防治法实施情况，开展土壤污染防治情况专题调研，督促解决环境突出问题，加强生态文明建设。五是听取审议国务院关于统筹推进城乡社会保障体系建设、新农村建设、安全生产等报告，检查未成年人保护法实施情况，围绕民族地区经济社会发展情况开展专题调研，回应广大人民群众关注点，督促解决关系人民群众切身利益的突出问题。六是分别听取审议最高人民法院、最高人民检察院关于规范司法行为工作情况的报告，推动提高公正司法水平，促进社会公平正义，保障人民安居乐业。
On the basis of the above
principles and thinking on oversight work, the main oversight work the Standing
Committee this year will be as follows:
First, we will investigate
compliance with the Tourism Law and the Patent Law, and promote comprehensive
and correct implementation of them.
Second, we will listen to and
deliberate reports on the country’s plan for economic and social development
and central and local government budgets as well as on the final accounts and
auditing work of the central government, deliberate and approve the central
government’s final accounts for 2013, listen to and deliberate the report on
the allocation and use of government spending on water conservancy, carry out
special investigations and studies on the preparation and management of
departmental budgets, give impetus to the implementation of the general work
guideline of making progress while maintaining stability, carry out reform and
innovation in all areas of economic and social development, and genuinely
improve the quality and returns of economic development.
Third, we will listen to and
deliberate reports of the State Council on deepening reform of the system of
government review and approval and strengthening financial supervision and
regulation to prevent financial risks, carry out special investigations and
studies on compliance with the Civil Service Law, give impetus to the
implementation of the Central Committee’s policy decisions and agendas for
comprehensively deepening reform in order to accelerate reforms in important
areas.
Fourth, we will listen to the
report of the State Council on conserving energy and reducing emissions;
investigate compliance with the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law; carry
out special investigations and studies on preventing and controlling soil
pollution; exhort relevant departments to solve prominent environmental
problems; and strengthen ecological conservation.
Fifth, we will listen to and
deliberate reports of the State Council on carrying forward the development of
social security systems for urban and rural residents in a holistic way, the
building of a new countryside, and production safety; investigate compliance
with the Law on the Protection of Minors; carry out special investigations and
studies on economic and social development in ethnic minority areas; respond to
the people’s concerns; and exhort relevant departments to solve prominent
problems that concern the people the most and affect their vital interests.
Sixth, we will separately listen
to and deliberate reports of the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s
Procuratorate on how they have been standardizing their judicial conduct in
order to improve judicial fairness, promote social fairness and justice, and
ensure that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.
三、继续加强和改进代表服务、对外交往、自身建设等方面工作 3. We
will continue to strengthen and improve work related to deputy services,
foreign contacts, and self-improvement.
健全代表工作制度，扎实做好服务保障工作，充分发挥代表作用。一是进一步加强常委会同代表联系。委员长会议组成人员要通过走访、电话、信函等方式，加强同直接联系代表的交流；到地方开展执法检查、调查研究和视察时，邀请直接联系的代表参加相关活动。建立常委会组成人员、专门委员会联系全国人大代表的工作机制，特别要加强同基层全国人大代表的联系，畅通社情民意反映和表达渠道。完善代表参与常委会、专门委员会工作的机制，努力让来自基层的全国人大代表在五年任期内都能列席一次常委会会议，邀请更多代表参加执法检查、立法调研等活动。二是进一步密切代表同人民群众联系。完善代表联系群众制度，加强代表联络机构建设，建立健全网络平台，改进代表视察、专题调研等工作，拓宽和丰富代表联系群众的渠道和内容，更好地发挥代表在了解民情、反映民意、集中民智方面的独特作用。三是进一步提高代表履职服务保障水平。提高代表议案和建议办理质量，拓宽代表知情知政渠道，开展代表专题学习培训，让来自基层的全国人大代表在五年任期内都能接受一次学习培训。
We will improve the system for
work related to deputies, effectively provide them with services and get them
to fully play their role.
First, we will strengthen
relations between the Standing Committee and deputies. Members of the
Chairperson’s Council need to increase their exchanges with deputies they are
partnered with through visits, phone calls and letters. When they go on trips
to inspect compliance with laws or carry out investigations and studies or
inspections, deputies they are partnered with should be invited to take part in
relevant activities. We will establish a work mechanism for Standing Committee
members and special committees to maintain contacts with NPC deputies,
especially strengthen contacts with local-level deputies to the NPC, and ensure
that social conditions and popular sentiment find ways to be heard. We will
improve the mechanism for deputies to participate in the work of the Standing
Committee and special committees, strive to make sure that all local-level
deputies to the NPC can sit in on at least one Standing Committee meeting
during their five-year term of office, and invite more deputies to participate
in activities including inspections of compliance with laws and investigations
and studies for pending legislation.
Second, we will foster closer
links between deputies and the people. We will improve the system for deputies
to maintain close ties with the people, strengthen deputy contact offices,
build a sound online platform, improve the work of inspection tours and
investigations and studies on special topics by deputies, widen the channels
and enrich the content of deputies’ contacts with the people, and make better
use of deputies’ special role in understanding public feelings, reporting on
popular sentiment and drawing on the wisdom of the people.
Third, we will better serve
deputies carrying out their duties. We will raise the quality of our handling
of bills and proposals by deputies, expand the avenues by which deputies learn
about what goes on in the NPC and the government as a whole, carry out special
training sessions for deputies, and make sure that local-le
认真贯彻落实中央外交大政方针和总体部署，加强与重要国家、发展中国家和周边国家议会的交流与合作，巩固和完善与外国议会定期交流机制，积极开展多渠道多形式对外交往，加强政治互信，推动务实合作，增进人民友谊，积极为我国改革发展稳定营造良好的外部环境，为维护世界和平稳定和促进共同发展作出应有贡献。
We will conscientiously implement
the major policies and principles and overall arrangements of the CPC Central
Committee for the country’s diplomatic work; strengthen exchanges and
cooperation with parliaments and congresses of major countries, other
developing countries, and neighboring countries; and strengthen and improve the
mechanism for regular exchanges with foreign parliaments and congresses. We
will develop diplomatic contacts through multiple channels in various ways;
enhance mutual political trust, promote pragmatic cooperation and deepen
friendship among our peoples; create a beneficial external environment for our
country’s reform, development and stability; and make our proper contribution
to safeguarding world peace and stability and promoting common development.
继续加强常委会自身建设，坚持人大工作正确政治方向，坚持党对人大工作的领导，坚决维护中央权威。坚持民主集中制原则，贯彻执行党的群众路线，切实增强代表人民行使管理国家权力的政治责任感，全心全意为人民服务。紧紧围绕中央重大决策部署，加强对人大工作新情况新问题的调查研究，提高立法、监督、代表等工作水平。加强和推动法制宣传教育，营造全社会学法尊法守法用法的良好氛围。严格遵守中央八项规定，健全改进作风、厉行节约常态化制度，坚决维护制度的严肃性和权威性。继续办好常委会专题讲座，完善组织方式，拓展学习领域，增强学习效果。加强对专门委员会工作的领导，充分发挥专门委员会作用。加强与地方人大的工作联系，密切工作协同，开展工作交流，增强人大工作整体实效，共同推进社会主义民主法治建设。全国人大机关要按照理想坚定、政治可靠、业务精湛、作风优良、廉洁勤政的要求，进一步加强机关干部队伍建设。
We will continue to strengthen
the Standing Committee’s self-improvement, adhere to the correct political
orientation of the NPC’s work, uphold the Party’s leadership of the NPC’s work,
and firmly safeguard the authority of the Central Committee. We will uphold the
principle of democratic centralism. We will implement the Party’s mass line,
genuinely increase our sense of political responsibility in representing the
people in exercising the power of administering the country, and wholeheartedly
serve the people. We will strengthen investigations and studies on new
developments and problems that arise in the NPC’s work concerning the Central
Committee’s major policy decisions and arrangements, and improve the NPC’s work
related to legislation, oversight and deputies. We will strengthen and promote
publicity of and education in the legal system and create a sound atmosphere in
which everyone study, respect, abide by, and apply the law. We will strictly
abide by the Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and
government conduct, improve the systems for regularly improving the conduct of
the NPC and practicing thrift, and firmly uphold the sanctity and authority of
rules and regulations. We will continue to deliver special topic lectures to
the Standing Committee, improve organizational methods, expand the scope of
study, and obtain better results from study. We will strengthen leadership of
the work of the special committees and give full play to their role. We will
strengthen work relations with local people’s congresses, strengthen work
coordination, develop work exchanges, raise the overall effectiveness of the
work of people’s congresses, and work together to promote the building of
socialist democracy and the socialist rule of law. NPC bodies should continue
to strengthen their ranks on the basis of the requirements that their staff
have firm ideals, are politically reliable and professionally competent, have a
good work style, and are honest and industrious.
今年9月，我们将迎来全国人民代表大会成立60周年。实践充分证明，人民代表大会制度是符合中国国情、体现我国社会主义国家性质、保证人民当家作主的根本政治制度，也是党在国家政权组织中贯彻群众路线、充分发扬民主的最好实现形式。要以纪念全国人民代表大会成立60周年为契机，深入宣传人民代表大会制度的光辉历程、显著成就和实践经验，深入宣传我国根本政治制度的巨大优越性，坚定对人民代表大会制度的自信，推动人民代表大会制度与时俱进。
September this year marks the
60th anniversary of the establishment of the NPC. Through practice we have
fully verified that the system of people’s congresses is the fundamental
political system that conforms to China’s national conditions, reflects the
socialist nature of the state and guarantees the people’s position as masters
of the country, and is also the best way the Party can implement the mass line
and make democracy flourish in organizations of state power. We should make the
most of the occasion of commemorating the 60th anniversary of the establishment
of the NPC to fully publicize the glorious history, outstanding achievements
and practical experience of the system of people’s congresses, as well as the
great superiority of our country’s fundamental political system, firmly
maintain our confidence in the system of people’s congresses, and advance it
with the times.
各位代表，改革开放的新征程在召唤我们，人民群众的新期待在激励我们。让我们紧密地团结在以习近平同志为总书记的党中央周围，以邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想、科学发展观为指导，全面贯彻落实习近平总书记系列重要讲话精神，万众一心，锐意进取，扎实工作，为全面建成小康社会、不断夺取中国特色社会主义新胜利、实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦而努力奋斗！
Fellow Deputies,
A new journey of reform and opening up is summoning us, and new expectations of the people are energizing us. Let us rally closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary; take Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of Three Represents and the Scientific Outlook on Development as our guide; comprehensively implement the guidelines of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches; work together as one; advance resolutely; do solid work; and strive mightily to finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, constantly achieve new successes in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and realize the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. |
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