The National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s highest legislative body, reviewed during the 2021 two sessions the draft revisions to the NPC Organization Law and the NPC’s Rules of Procedures, the first time since the law and the regulation came into effect three decades ago.
Tong Weidong, a law director at the Law Work Committee under the NPC, said at a press conference that the revisions aim to improve the legal basis for the NPC’s work and to enable State governance to keep up with the times. He said that the two revisions form part of the institutional reform to government departments and Party organs.
According to Tong, a highlight of the two revisions is to add a clause of “keeping democratic throughout the whole process,” and to set up a system that enables questioning and deposing leaders of the National Supervisory Commission, the highest organ in charge of supervision. The revisions will also streamline and simplify the NPC conference procedures to raise efficiency.
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