今后一年的主要任务
Major Tasks for This Year
全国人大常委会2015年工作的总体要求是：全面贯彻党的十八大和十八届三中、四中全会精神，高举中国特色社会主义伟大旗帜，以邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想、科学发展观为指导，深入学习贯彻习近平总书记系列重要讲话精神，坚持党的领导、人民当家作主、依法治国有机统一，紧紧围绕全面建成小康社会、全面深化改革、全面依法治国、全面从严治党的战略布局，依法行使职权、积极开展工作，充分发挥最高国家权力机关在建设社会主义法治国家中的重要作用，坚决维护宪法法律权威，弘扬社会主义法治精神，为实现“两个一百年”奋斗目标、实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦作出新贡献。
In 2015, the overall requirements for the work of the NPC Standing Committee are as follows: comprehensively implement the guidelines of the 18th National Party Congress and the third and fourth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee; hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics; follow the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development; put into practice the guiding principles from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s major speeches; remain committed to integrating leadership by the Party, the position of the people as masters of the country, and the law-based governance of the country; and focus on the strategic goals of finishing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, comprehensively deepening reform, fully advancing law-based governance of China, and promoting all-round strengthening of Party self-conduct as we perform our functions and powers and carry out our work in accordance with the law. We also need to give full play to the NPC’s role as the highest organ of state power in building China into a socialist rule of law country; uphold the authority of the Constitution and other laws; promote socialist rule of law; and make new contributions toward achieving the Two Centenary Goals* and realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(* The Two Centenary Goals are to finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the time the CPC celebrates its centenary in 2021; and to turn China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, and harmonious by the time the People’s Republic of China celebrates its centenary in 2049.)
一、完善以宪法为核心的中国特色社会主义法律体系
I. Improving the socialist system of laws with Chinese characteristics, at the heart of which is the Constitution
贯彻党的十八届四中全会精神，坚持立法先行，抓住提高立法质量这个关键，实现立法和改革决策相衔接，做到重大改革于法有据、立法主动适应改革和经济社会发展需要，发挥立法的引领和推动作用。
As we implement the guidelines of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, we need to begin with legislation, focusing on the key task of improving the quality of legislation. We will coordinate our legislative work with the country’s decisions on reform to make sure that all of the country’s major reforms have a legal basis, and that legislative work is carried out proactively to meet the needs of reform as well as economic and social development, thereby letting legislation play its role of guiding and driving reform and development.
（一）健全宪法实施和监督制度。全面贯彻实施宪法，是建设社会主义法治国家的首要任务和基础性工作，必须把宣传、树立和维护宪法权威作为全面推进依法治国的重大事项抓紧抓好。完善全国人大及其常委会宪法监督制度，健全宪法解释程序机制，建立宪法宣誓制度。认真做好规范性文件备案审查工作，依法撤销和纠正违宪违法的规范性文件。
1. We will improve the systems for enforcing the Constitution and for overseeing its enforcement.
Enforcing the Constitution is a priority and a fundamental task in building China into a socialist rule of law country. Spreading knowledge about the Constitution and establishing and safeguarding its authority among the public must be viewed as major tasks in fully advancing the law-based governance of the country, which should be carried out properly and without delay. We will improve the mechanism by which the NPC and its Standing Committee oversee the enforcement of the Constitution, put in place sound procedures and mechanisms to interpret the Constitution, and develop a system of pledging allegiance to the Constitution for officials assuming office. We will work hard to ensure proper record-keeping and review of normative documents, and to see that, in accordance with legal procedures, any normative document that conflicts with the Constitution or other laws is rescinded or corrected.
（二）加强重点领域立法。从经济社会发展实际需要出发，突出重点、统筹兼顾，科学确定立法项目。一是完善社会主义市场经济法律制度，修改证券法、促进科技成果转化法、种子法、农村土地承包法、广告法等，抓紧研究启动民法典编纂工作。二是健全民主政治立法，修改选举法、地方组织法、代表法、行政复议法等。推进反腐败国家立法，研究修订行政监察法。三是推进社会领域立法，制定社区矫正法、反家庭暴力法、中医药法、慈善事业法，修改食品安全法、红十字会法，通过刑法修正案（九）。四是加强文化、教育、生态领域立法，制定公共文化服务保障法、国家勋章和国家荣誉称号法，修改大气污染防治法、有关教育法律等。五是推进国家安全法治建设，制定国家安全法、反恐怖主义法、境外非政府组织管理法、网络安全法等。
2. We will advance legislation in key areas.
Keeping closely in mind the practical needs in the country’s economic and social development, we will adopt a coordinated approach with clear priorities and establish legislative tasks in a well-conceived way.
First, we will improve the system of laws for the socialist market economy. We will make revisions to the following laws: the Securities Law, the Law on Promoting the Application of Scientific and Technological Advances, the Seed Law, the Law on the Contracting of Rural Land, and the Advertising Law; we will intensify our efforts to research and begin work on developing a civil code.
Second, we will improve legislation on democracy. We will revise the Electoral Law for the National People’s Congress and Local People’s Congresses, the Organic Law of the Local People’s Congresses and Local People’s Governments, the Law on Deputies to the National People’s Congress and Deputies to Local People’s Congresses, and the Law on Administrative Review. We will develop national legislation to fight corruption and work out revisions to the Law on Administrative Supervision.
Third, we will push forward with legislation concerning social issues. We will work on a community correction law, an anti-domestic violence law, a law on traditional Chinese medicine, and a charity law. We will revise the Food Safety Law and the Law on the Red Cross Society, and pass Amendment IX to the Criminal Law.
Fourth, we will advance legislation concerning cultural, educational, and ecological issues, work to formulate a law for guaranteeing public cultural services and a law on national medals and titles of honor, and revise the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law as well as educational laws.
Fifth, we will uphold the rule of law in our efforts to advance national security. We will formulate a national security law, an anti-terrorism law, a law on the management of international NGOs in China, and a cyber-security law.
（三）完善立法体制机制。发挥全国人大及其常委会在立法工作中的主导作用。调整常委会立法规划。建立由全国人大相关专门委员会、常委会工作委员会组织有关方面参与起草重要法律草案机制，建立健全专门委员会、工作委员会立法专家顾问制度。加强立法工作力量，提高立法工作能力。
3. We will improve our legislative systems and mechanisms.
The NPC and its Standing Committee will continue to play the dominant role in legislative work. We will make adjustments to the legislative plans of the Standing Committee. We will establish a mechanism by which the NPC’s special committees and the working committees of the NPC Standing Committee organize relevant departments to participate in the drafting of major laws, and establish a sound system whereby specialists act as legislative advisors to the special committees of people’s congresses and to the working committees of the standing committees of people’s congresses. By strengthening the ranks of those working on legislation, we will improve our capacity for carrying out legislative work.
加强人大对立法工作的组织协调，健全立法机关主导、社会各方有序参与立法的途径和方式。更多发挥人大代表参与起草和修改法律的作用，广泛征求代表意见并认真研究采纳。贯彻加强社会主义协商民主建设的精神，开展立法协商。健全立法机关和社会公众沟通机制，拓宽公民有序参与立法途径，加强立法宣传工作。健全向地方人大征询立法意见机制，探索建立基层立法联系点制度。增强立法针对性，推进立法精细化，不断提高立法工作水平。
We will ensure that the NPC better organizes and coordinates legislative work and improve the channels and ways through which legislative bodies lead legislation and other sectors of society participate systematically. We will expand the role played by NPC deputies in the drafting and revising of laws by extensively consulting with them, and then following up on and adopting their useful suggestions. We will hold consultations on legislation with a view to putting into practice the guidelines for strengthening the development of socialist consultative democracy.
We will improve the mechanisms by which legislative bodies communicate with the general public, expand the channels for citizens’ systematic participation in the legislative process, and enhance the publicity of legislative work. We will create better mechanisms for soliciting comments on legislation from local people’s congresses, and explore ways of staying connected to local communities on legislative issues. We will continue to improve our legislative work by making legislation more targeted and refining the legislative process.
二、加强对法律实施情况和“一府两院”工作的监督
II. Strengthening oversight over compliance with laws and over the work of the State Council, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate
习近平总书记指出：“人民代表大会制度的重要原则和制度设计的基本要求，就是任何国家机关及其工作人员的权力都要受到制约和监督。” 全国人大及其常委会要担负起宪法法律赋予的监督职责，维护国家法制统一、尊严、权威。
General Secretary Xi Jinping stated that “the important principle behind the system of people’s congresses and the basic requirement of its institutional design are to subject the exercise of power by all state organs and their employees to constraints and oversight.” The NPC and its Standing Committee must perform their constitutional and legal duties of oversight and safeguard the unity, sanctity, and authority of the country’s legal system.
（一）加强对法律实施情况的监督检查。适应全面推进依法治国新形势，促进“一府两院”依法行政、公正司法，保证法律得到正确有效实施。安排检查水污染防治法、消费者权益保护法、农业法、民族区域自治法、老年人权益保障法、职业教育法等6部法律的实施情况，进一步加大执法检查力度，增强执法检查的权威性、针对性和实效性。
1. We will increase efforts to monitor and inspect compliance with laws.
Adapting to the new situation in fully advancing the law-based governance of the country, we will facilitate the State Council’s efforts toward carrying out administration in accordance with the law and the efforts of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate to administer justice in an impartial way, ensuring that laws are enforced properly and effectively.
We will arrange inspections of compliance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, the Law on the Protection of Consumers’ Rights and Interests, the Agriculture Law, the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy, the Law on Guaranteeing the Rights and Interests of Senior Citizens, and the Law on Vocational Education. We will intensify efforts to inspect law enforcement and make our work in this regard more authoritative, targeted, and effective.
（二）加强对“一府两院”工作的监督。适应经济发展新常态，推动中央重大决策部署贯彻落实。听取审议国务院关于新型信息化建设推动信息化和工业化深度融合发展、自由贸易试验区工作进展、公共文化服务体系建设、稳定和完善农村土地承包关系、深化医药卫生体制改革等工作情况和计划执行情况的报告。加强对司法活动的监督，听取审议最高人民法院关于行政审判、最高人民检察院关于刑罚执行监督等工作情况的报告。
2. We will step up oversight over the work of the State Council, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
Adapting to the new normal in the country’s economic development, we will give impetus to implementing the major policies and plans of the CPC Central Committee.
We will listen to and deliberate on reports from the State Council regarding its work and progress in promoting deeper integrated development of information technology and industrialization through the application of new advances in information technology, facilitating development of the pilot free trade zones, developing the system of public cultural services, stabilizing and improving rural land contract relations, and deepening reform of the medical and health care systems.
We will strengthen oversight over judicial activities, and listen to and deliberate on the Supreme People’s Court’s report on judgments in administrative cases and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s report on its oversight over the enforcement of penal decisions.
（三）加大对预算决算的监督力度。审查批准预算决算和监督预算的执行，是各级人大及其常委会的一项法定职权。修改后的预算法，对预算决算审查监督的范围、审查的程序和重点内容、监督的主体和责任等，作出了新规定、提出了新要求。我们要以全面贯彻实施新修改的预算法为契机，切实加强对预算决算的审查和监督。听取审议决算、审计工作和预算执行情况报告，审查批准2014年中央决算；听取审议国务院关于加强政府债务管理情况的报告，围绕完善国有资本经营预算进行专题调研。
3. We will strengthen oversight over budgets and final accounts.
Examining and approving government budgets and final accounts and overseeing the implementation of budgets are legally mandated powers of all levels of people’s congresses and their standing committees.
The revised Budget Law has made new provisions and set forth new requirements concerning the scope of government budgets and final accounts subject to review and oversight, the review procedures and areas of priority, and the bodies charged with exercising oversight and their responsibilities. We will make the most of the opportunity that comes with implementing the revised Budget Law to earnestly strengthen review and oversight over budgets and final accounts.
We will listen to and deliberate over reports on the government’s final accounts, auditing work, and implementation of budgets, and review and approve the central government’s final accounts for 2014. We will listen to and deliberate on a report from the State Council on strengthening the management of government debt, and carry out research on how to improve budgeting for state capital operations.
着眼于增强监督针对性和实效性，继续探索完善监督工作方式方法。发挥专题询问的作用，结合听取审议水污染防治法执法检查、职业教育法执法检查等报告开展专题询问。加强跟踪监督，安排听取审议国务院关于研究处理大气污染防治法执法检查报告及审议意见情况的反馈报告、关于审计查出突出问题整改落实情况的报告。围绕“十三五”规划纲要编制工作若干重要问题开展专题调研，安排听取审议相关专题调研报告。
We will continue to explore ways to improve oversight work in order to make it more targeted and effective. We will strengthen the role of special inquiries, and carry out special inquiries during our listening to and deliberation over reports on inspections of the enforcement of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution and the Law on Vocational Education.
We will strengthen follow-up oversight, and make arrangements for listening to and deliberating on the State Council’s feedback report on how it has responded to our report on inspections of the enforcement of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law and our comments, as well as its report on its work to correct the serious problems uncovered through auditing.
We will carry out research on certain major issues in compiling the 13th Five-Year Plan and make arrangements for listening to and deliberating on the reports produced therein.
三、深化和拓展代表工作
III. Deepening and expanding work related to deputies
习近平总书记明确提出，“各级国家机关及其工作人员一定要为人民用权、为人民履职、为人民服务，把加强同人大代表和人民群众的联系作为对人民负责、受人民监督的重要内容，虚心听取人大代表、人民群众意见和建议”。常委会要自觉和带头贯彻落实这一要求，通过加强与人大代表、人民群众的联系，丰富内容和形式，积极回应社会关切，努力做到民有所呼、我有所应，自觉接受人民监督，不断提高人大工作水平。
General Secretary Xi Jinping has made it clear that “state organs at all levels and their employees must use their authority and perform their duties to benefit and serve the people; adopt the idea that strengthening ties with the deputies to people’s congresses and the general public is an integral part of being responsible to the people and accepting their oversight; and listen to the comments and suggestions of deputies and the people with an open mind.”
The Standing Committee must take the lead in conscientiously putting these requirements into practice; actively respond to people’s concerns by strengthening contact with them and the NPC deputies in more areas and through a wider variety of channels; be where the people need it to be; voluntarily accept the oversight of the people; and constantly improve the work of the NPC.
坚持和深化委员长会议组成人员、常委会委员直接联系代表制度，支持和保障代表围绕常委会立法和监督议题广泛听取群众意见并积极反映。推进常委会、专门委员会、工作委员会向代表通报重要情况和征求意见常态化，健全法律起草征求代表意见制度。推动“一府两院”定期或者不定期召开人大代表座谈会，就重大决策和工作征求代表意见，拓宽代表知情知政渠道。
We will uphold and improve the system by which members of the Chairperson’s Council and the Standing Committee maintain direct contact with NPC deputies, and support and ensure deputies’ efforts to listen extensively to the people’s suggestions regarding the legislative and oversight topics of the Standing Committee and proactively deliver these suggestions to the Standing Committee.
We will see that the Standing Committee, the special committees, and the working committees inform deputies of important developments in the work of the NPC and solicit their comments and suggestions on these developments, and make sure this work becomes regular practice. We will improve the system of soliciting suggestions from deputies on the drafting of laws.
We will see to it that the State Council, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate hold forums for NPC deputies at regular or irregular intervals to listen to deputies’ views on their major decisions and endeavors, and thus expand the avenues by which deputies learn about state affairs and developments.
密切人大代表同人民群众的联系，研究制定代表联系人民群众工作意见，推进全国人大代表履职平台建设，支持全国人大代表参加所在地方人大代表联络站（室）活动，广泛、直接听取群众意见，畅通社情民意反映渠道，更好汇聚民智。选择社会广泛关注的课题，组织相关领域代表开展专题调研并形成代表议案和建议。
We will introduce guidelines on helping deputies maintain contact with the people in order to foster closer ties between deputies and the people. We will set up a platform for NPC deputies to better perform their duties, and encourage them to participate in the activities of the liaison offices of their respective local people’s congresses. Through these efforts to extensively and directly listen to people’s suggestions and to give expression to social conditions and public sentiment, we will be able to better pool together and draw from the wisdom of the people. We will organize NPC deputies from relevant sectors to carry out research on issues of wide public concern which we have chosen and create proposals and suggestions.
充分发挥代表作用，增强保障代表依法履职的能力。完善代表学习培训制度，健全提高代表素质和能力的机制。完善代表议案审议机制，更好地将审议代表议案与立法工作结合起来。改进代表建议办理机制，推动承办单位加强与代表的直接沟通和联系，注重改进工作、完善政策、解决问题。积极稳妥推进代表建议和办理结果公开。加强代表思想、作风建设，支持选举单位依法完善监督机制，督促代表严格履行代表义务，做到勤勉尽责、遵纪守法。
We will give full play to the role of deputies, and strengthen our capacity to help them perform their duties in accordance with the law. We will improve the system of study and training for deputies as well as mechanisms to raise their ability and professional competence.
We will refine the mechanisms for deliberating on deputies’ proposals and better integrate the deliberation of their proposals with legislative work. We will improve the mechanisms for handling deputies’ suggestions, by helping the organizations to which deputies’ suggestions are referred strengthen direct communication and contact with deputies, so that these organizations can effectively improve their work and relevant policies to solve problems. We will actively and steadily make public the suggestions of deputies and the outcomes they produce.
We will improve deputies’ political integrity and conduct, support electoral bodies in improving their mechanisms for oversight in accordance with the law, and monitor and encourage deputies in the performance of their duties so that they work diligently and in accordance with the law and the codes of discipline.
湖南衡阳破坏选举案已经依法依纪严肃查处。这个案件教训十分深刻，必须引以为戒，完善制度，堵塞漏洞。要切实加强党对人大代表选举工作的领导，把好代表“入口关”，坚持严格依法办事，充分发挥各级人大常委会职能作用，完善代表资格审查机制，加强对选举全过程的有效监督，确保选举工作风清气正。
The case of vote buying that occurred in the city of Hengyang, Hunan Province, was severely dealt with in accordance with the law and the codes of discipline. We must take this profound lesson to heart, and improve relevant institutions to close all loopholes. We must effectively strengthen the Party’s leadership over the election of deputies to people’s congresses, be strict in the election of deputies, follow procedures strictly in accordance with the law, make full use of the role of the standing committees of people’s congresses at all levels, improve the mechanisms for reviewing deputies’ qualifications, and tighten oversight over the whole process of electing deputies in order to ensure that elections are carried out honestly.
我们要按照中央外交工作总体部署，认真做好人大对外交往工作，增强议会定期交流机制实效性，密切各层次友好往来，为国家关系长期稳定发展夯实牢固的民意基础和社会基础，为国内发展营造良好外部环境，为加快走出去步伐、推动“一带一路”建设、维护我国海外合法权益发挥积极作用，更好服从服务于国家发展战略大局。
We will do our best in carrying out the NPC’s foreign relations work in light of the overall plans of the CPC Central Committee for the country’s diplomatic work. We will strengthen the mechanisms for regular exchanges with foreign parliaments and congresses and increase our friendly foreign contacts at all levels so as to consolidate the social foundation and public support for developing long-term stable relations between China and other countries. We will work to create a favorable external environment for domestic development; play an active and positive role in accelerating the country’s pace of “going global”, promoting the development of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and protecting China’s legitimate rights and interests overseas; and better comply with and serve China’s national development strategy.
我们要切实加强常委会自身建设，增强代表人民行使管理国家权力的政治责任感，在贯彻落实中央重大决策部署上凝神聚焦发力。注重运用法治思维和法治方式推动人大工作完善发展，做尊法学法守法用法的模范。继续加强与地方人大的联系，召开人大工作座谈会。持之以恒抓好作风建设，健全长效机制。加强全国人大机关建设，建设一支高素质人大工作和立法工作队伍。全国人大机关要支持中央纪委派驻纪检组工作，自觉接受监督。
We will make solid steps forward in strengthening the Standing Committee’s self-improvement, increase our sense of political responsibility as representatives of the people in exercising the power of managing the country, and concentrate our work and efforts on implementing the CPC Central Committee’s major policies and plans. We will follow the principle of rule of law in our thinking and action to improve and develop the work of the NPC, and play an exemplary role in respecting, studying, abiding by, and applying the law. We will continue to increase contact with local people’s congresses and hold conferences on the work of the NPC. We will put in place long-term mechanisms for making persistent efforts to improve the manner in which we carry out our work. We will improve the bodies of the NPC, and build a highly competent team devoted to legislative work and the work of the NPC as a whole. The bodies of the NPC must support the work of the discipline inspection groups sent to them by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and readily accept oversight.
各位代表！时代的重托光荣艰巨，人民的期待殷切厚重。让我们紧密团结在以习近平同志为总书记的党中央周围，开拓进取，扎实工作，在全面建成小康社会、全面深化改革、全面依法治国、全面从严治党的伟大实践中充分发挥人大及其常委会的重要作用，为实现“两个一百年”奋斗目标、实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦作出新贡献！
Fellow Deputies,
The mission that this age has tasked us with is honorable yet formidable, and the expectations that the people have of us are great and deep-felt. Let us rally closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary as we work to break new ground and make solid progress. Let us make full use of the important role of the NPC and its Standing Committee as we advance in the great course of finishing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, comprehensively deepening reform, fully advancing law-based governance of the country, and promoting all-round strengthening of Party self-conduct. Let us work hard to make new contributions toward achieving the Two Centenary Goals and realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
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