The Jiangsu Delegation attending the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress held a plenary meeting Wednesday to review the draft version of the constitutional amendments.
Lou Qinjian, head of the Jiangsu delegation and secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and chairman of the Provincial People's Congress, presided over the plenary session. The delegates spoke enthusiastically about the deliberation of the "Amendment to the Draft of the Constitution" and the government work report.
Lou Qinjian said that amending the Constitution is a major event in the political life of the country and has great and far-reaching significance. It is a great event to better adhere to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics through integrating various undertakings and various tasks in the country into the course of governing the nation according to law and governing the nation according to the Constitution.
Amending the Constitution is the requirement of the times, practice and rule of law so as to elevate the major theoretical innovations, practical innovations and institutional innovation achievements made by the party and the people in practice, Lou said.
Lou said in the new phase of development, under the guidance of the 19th CPC National Congress, Jiangsu will focus its efforts on the goal of building a well-off society at an all-round level and opening up a new journey toward basic realization of modernization and strive to solve the problem of unbalanced development of the supply and demand and ensure the province stands at the forefront of the country in high-quality development.
Greater efforts will be made to focus on promoting economic development, reform and opening up, urban and rural construction, cultural construction, ecological environment, people's life, six high-quality tasks, forestall and resolve major risks as well as push targeted poverty alleviation and pollution control, Lou said.
Governor Wu Zhenglong said that the draft of the amendment to the Constitution contains the major theoretical points and major principles and policies promulgated by the 19th CPC National Congress, in particular the Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, and establishes its position in the national political life and guiding status in social life, which has made it clear that the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Jiang Zhuoqing, head of the discipline inspection committee for the provincial CPC committee, said that deepening the reform of the state supervisory system is a major policy decision made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core. It has added the content of the commission of supervision to the constitutional amendment and given the commission constitutional status, reflecting the overall deepening of the reform, administering the country according to law, governing the organic unity of the party so that the party's claims become the national will through legal procedures.
Jiang pledged that the provincial supervisory commission will act in accordance with the Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, implement the requirements and deployment of the CPC Central Committee, perform the duties and mission so as to usher in a new stage of anti-corruption campaign and promote the improvement of the province's political ecology.
The deputies said that the amendment to the Constitution better reflects the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and better meets the requirements of promoting the state administration system and the modernization of the governance capacity. It reflects the will of the people to incorporate the Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era and lifting the term limits on the office of the President into the Constitution, which is of far-reaching significance for the country to maintain its long-term peace and stability and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation by promoting the constitutional development of keeping pace with the times and perfecting the development so as to provide a strong constitutional safeguard for the socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Ji Bingxuan, member of the 19th CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the 12th NPC, was present at the meeting.
(Source:Jiangsu International Channel)
