Fellow Deputies,

The achievements of the NPC Standing Committee last year were the result of the unity, cooperation, and hard work of all NPC deputies, and the members of the Standing Committee and the special committees under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as General Secretary as well as the active cooperation and common efforts of local people's congresses at all levels and their standing committees. Credit is also due to the State Council, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate for their assistance, and to the general public for their full support. On behalf of the NPC Standing Committee, I would like to express our sincere thanks to all of them.

We are also keenly aware that some areas of our work, such as making use of the role of NPC deputies, improving the quality of legislation, and making oversight more effective, still fall considerably short of the expectations of the people and demands of deputies. We will willingly accept the oversight of the people, listen to deputies' suggestions with an open mind, constantly improve our work, and make better use of the roles of the NPC and its Standing Committee as the highest organs of state power, working bodies that carry out their responsibilities in accordance with the law, and representative bodies in close contact with the masses.