Chen Jining placed these expectations on the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the meeting held

The Shanghai Municipal People's Congress held a meeting to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding today. Chen Jining, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, stressed at the meeting that we must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on upholding and improving the people's congress system and the spirit of his important speech at the meeting celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress, firmly uphold the "four self-confidences", adhere to the "four puts", focus on developing people's democracy throughout the process, unswervingly uphold, improve and operate the people's congress system, promote the high-quality development of all work of the Shanghai People's Congress and take it to a new level, and provide a solid institutional guarantee for forging ahead on a new journey and making contributions to the new era.

Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Gong Zheng attended the meeting, Chairman of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee Huang Lixin spoke, Chairman of the Municipal CPPCC Hu Wenrong attended, and Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Zhu Zhongming presided over the meeting.

Chen Jining pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the meeting celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress, which pointed out the direction for developing socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics and doing a good job in the work of the National People's Congress. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important concept of people's democracy throughout the process and his important thoughts on upholding and improving the people's congress system are the fundamental guidelines for upholding and improving the people's congress system in the new era. On the new journey, we must more deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and resolutely achieve the "two safeguards". We must unswervingly adhere to the party's overall leadership over the work of the National People's Congress, and strive to create a new situation in the work of the Shanghai People's Congress with a strong determination to remain true to our principles and aspirations, and with a high-spirited attitude of upholding the truth and innovating, pioneering and innovating.

Chen Jining pointed out that over the past 70 years, the municipal people's congresses at all levels and their standing committees have adhered to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people's mastery of their own affairs, and the rule of law, and have given full play to the functions and roles of the people's congresses. They have actively taken actions to serve the national strategic tasks, implement the concept of a people's city, and develop people's democracy throughout the entire process, making important contributions to Shanghai's economic and social development and the construction of democracy and the rule of law. We must firmly uphold the "four self-confidences", adhere to, improve, and operate the people's congress system well, and effectively enhance our confidence, consciousness, and firmness in taking the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics. We must strengthen the study of new situations and new problems at the level of local institutional innovation, increase the efforts to take the lead in trials, and strive to explore experience for the country. We must implement the people's right to know, right to participate, right to express, and right to supervise in the entire process of the work of the people's congresses, reflect the people's mastery of their own affairs in all aspects of economic and social development, and transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness.

Chen Jining pointed out that we should focus on developing people's democracy throughout the whole process and give full play to the important institutional carrier role of the people's congress system. Closely combine with the construction of a community of urban governance to fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people. The formulation of laws, regulations and public policies should more fully absorb public opinion and wisdom. We should better play the role of the "12345" citizen hotline, the collection of people's suggestions and other platforms, strengthen the functions of the grassroots legislative contact points of the people's congress and the "home site" of representatives, and create more "through trains" to listen to public opinion, observe public sentiment and gather public wisdom. The promotion of people's projects and people's livelihood projects should be better discussed and consulted with the masses. Adhere to coming from the masses, being determined by the masses, and letting the masses evaluate, and solve people's livelihood problems with democratic methods. The management and protection of the beautiful homeland of the city should mobilize citizens to build and share more widely. By improving the relevant legislation of the National People's Congress, promoting the spiritual character of the city, clarifying the responsibilities and obligations of citizens, and improving the mobilization and incentive mechanism, we can gather the magnificent power to create "a better city for a better life".

Chen Jining pointed out that in the new journey of promoting Chinese-style modernization, Shanghai must be a pioneer and a forerunner, test systems and explore new paths for the country, which requires more legal protection and institutional support, and more cohesion and collective wisdom. The work of the National People's Congress should be based on the performance of its functions, and find the combination, entry point and focus of serving the overall situation. Highlight the construction of the rule of law and strengthen the supply of high-quality systems. Improve the legislative work pattern led by the Party Committee, dominated by the National People's Congress, supported by the government, and participated by all parties, and promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and legislation in accordance with the law. Focus on the construction of the "five centers" and improve the systematicity, integrity and coordination of relevant laws and regulations. Take the Pudong New Area regulations as a breakthrough, strengthen creative legislation in key and emerging fields, and strengthen legal support for pioneering reforms and leading opening up. Focus on the construction of people's cities and strengthen legal support for solving people's livelihood problems. Take the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta as a platform, strengthen regional coordinated legislation, and promote the improvement of the system and mechanism of integrated development. Play a supervisory role and strengthen efficient implementation. Improve the supervision system of the National People's Congress over the "one government, one committee and two courts", improve the methods and means of supervision work, and continuously improve the effectiveness of supervision. Closely contact the masses and strengthen high-level investigation and research. Take the initiative to go deep into the masses, work hard to find out the truth, understand what the masses think, want and hope for, discover useful explorations at the grassroots level, pay attention to putting forward constructive opinions from the legal and institutional levels, and promote all work to go deep and practical, and see results.

Chen Jining stressed that it is necessary to adhere to the leadership of the Party and form a strong synergy to promote the high-quality development of the work of the People's Congress in the new era. Party committees at all levels in the city should strengthen their overall leadership over the work of the People's Congress and better support the People's Congress in performing its duties in accordance with the law. The People's Congresses at all levels in the city and their standing committees should adhere to the Party's overall leadership and coordination of all parties, give full play to the main role of the People's Congress deputies, and improve the deputies' awareness of performing their duties and their ability to connect with the masses. Strengthen self-construction in accordance with the positioning requirements of the "four organs" and strive to build a high-quality People's Congress work team. Vigorously guide the whole society to enhance institutional confidence and better become a Shanghai window to showcase the advantages of my country's full-process people's democracy.

Huang Lixin pointed out that we should earnestly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the meeting celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress, strengthen our confidence in the people's congress system, and adhere to, improve and operate the people's congress system. Over the past 70 years, under the strong leadership of the Municipal Party Committee, the Shanghai People's Congress has made important contributions to Shanghai's reform and opening up and economic and social development. On the new journey, we must thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, loyally support the "two establishments", resolutely implement the "two safeguards", actively perform our duties around the overall situation, and deeply promote the "Ten Actions" of the whole process of people's democracy. We will focus on strengthening the construction of the "four organs", constantly create new achievements and open up new situations, and provide a strong legal guarantee for Shanghai to accelerate the construction of a socialist modern international metropolis with global influence.

The meeting was attended by Li Yangzhe, Chen Tong, Zhu Zhisong, Zhang Wei, Chen Jinshan, and Hu Shijun, members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, responsible persons of the Municipal People's Congress, Municipal Government, and Municipal CPPCC, responsible persons of the Municipal High Court and Municipal Procuratorate, representatives of previous responsible persons and veteran comrades of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, secretaries of district committees and chairpersons of district people's congress standing committees, responsible persons of people's organizations such as the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, the Communist Youth League, and the Women's Federation, and other representatives from all walks of life, as well as some deputies to the National People's Congress and the Municipal People's Congress in Shanghai. At the meeting, Tian Chunhua, chairman of the Pudong New Area People's Congress Standing Committee, Zhao Longfang, chairman of the Qibao Town People's Congress of Minhang District, and Sheng Hong, a representative of the 14th National People's Congress, made speeches.