十四届全国人大常委会第二十五次会议在京闭幕

CCTV.com News (Xinwen Lianbo): The 25th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress concluded in Beijing on the morning of November 6. Chairman Zhao Leji presided over the closing meeting. Through votes, the session adopted the Law on Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation, the Law on Antarctic Activities and Environmental Protection, the newly revised Water Law, the Law on Combating Cross-Border Corruption, and a decision on amending fifteen laws, including the Emergency Response Law; it decided to remove Li Lecheng from the post of minister of industry and information technology.

The session voted to adopt the NPC Standing Committee's decision to ratify the Agreement on the Establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization.

The session voted to adopt reports on the results of deliberations on motions submitted by deputies and referred for deliberation by the Presidium of the fourth session of the 14th NPC, presented respectively by the NPC's Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee, Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, and Social Development Affairs Committee. It also voted to adopt the report of the NPC Standing Committee's Credentials Committee on the qualifications of certain deputies.

Through votes, the session appointed Wang Junzheng and Wang Ning as vice chairpersons of the NPC Ethnic Affairs Committee; Wang Kai as vice chairperson of the NPC Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee; Gong Zheng and Mao Weiming as vice chairpersons of the NPC Financial and Economic Affairs Committee; Liang Yanshun and Wang Yubo as vice chairpersons of the NPC Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee; Liu Ning, Ren Zhenhe and Wang Zhengpu as vice chairpersons of the NPC Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee; and Shen Xiaoming and Wang Qingxian as vice chairpersons of the NPC Social Development Affairs Committee. It removed Chen Fuli from the post of deputy secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee, voted to adopt a decision accepting Chen Fuli's request to resign as a member of the NPC Standing Committee and from other posts, and also voted to adopt other appointments and removals.

After the session completed the relevant votes, Zhao Leji delivered a speech.

Zhao Leji stressed the need to make in-depth study and implementation of the guiding principles of the fifth plenary session a major political task, and to fully implement its arrangements in light of the realities of Party building and work in the people's congresses. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thinking on Party building, deepen its practical application, enhance the effectiveness of study, and improve the quality of Party building in the people's congresses through higher standards and more concrete measures. Political development must serve as the overarching principle in comprehensively advancing all aspects of Party building in the people's congresses. Party organizations at all levels in the people's congresses must strictly fulfill their primary responsibilities, and Party members in leadership positions must be strict in disciplining themselves, fulfilling their duties and managing those under their authority. It is necessary to uphold the Party's overall leadership over people's congress work and take concrete action to support the "Two Establishments" and uphold the "Two Safeguards." Efforts must uphold the organic unity of law-based governance of the country and rules-based governance of the Party, further improve the anti-corruption legal system, bring into play the important role of people's congress oversight in the Party and state oversight systems, strengthen the ideological and political development, discipline and conduct of people's congress deputies, and use high-quality Party building to guide the high-quality development of people's congress work.

After the closing meeting, the Standing Committee of the 14th NPC held its 25th special lecture.

The Standing Committee of the 14th NPC held a constitutional oath-taking ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of November 6.