China's top legislator calls for maintaining confidence, leveraging strength

Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, visits a local household at Yangting Village of Wuheng Township, Anqing City, east China's Anhui Province, April 16, 2025. Zhao made a research and investigation tour to the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui in east China from Monday to Thursday. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)

HEFEI, April 17 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Zhao Leji has stressed the importance of maintaining confidence and composure, and leveraging strength and institutional advantages to fulfill goals set in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) and lay a solid foundation for the next five years.

Zhao, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, made the remarks during his research and investigation tour to the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui in east China from Monday to Thursday.

Zhao, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, stressed that the people's congresses should contribute to the country's high-quality development and social stability.

He underscored the need to uphold the Party's leadership and unswervingly follow the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.

Legislative work should be strengthened and improved to ensure that legal norms are timely updated, comprehensive, orderly interconnected and standardized, so as to support and safeguard reform and development, he said.

Zhao stressed the importance of local legislation's practical, supplementary, and exploratory roles, and called for correct, effective, and law-based supervision to ensure the proper implementation of the Constitution and laws.

Efforts should also be made to raise public awareness and expand orderly public participation to realize whole-process people's democracy, he added. ■

Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, visits a local legislators' liaison station at a community in Guangling District, Yangzhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 14, 2025. Zhao made a research and investigation tour to the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui in east China from Monday to Thursday. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)

Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, visits Yangting Village of Wuheng Township, Anqing City, east China's Anhui Province, April 16, 2025. Zhao made a research and investigation tour to the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui in east China from Monday to Thursday. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)

Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, visits the Nanjing TICA Climate Solutions Co., Ltd. in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 15, 2025. Zhao made a research and investigation tour to the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui in east China from Monday to Thursday. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)