3. Continuing to strengthen work in the areas of services for NPC deputies, foreign contacts and self-improvement

We need to further strengthen and improve work related to deputies. We will earnestly implement the guiding principles of the Central Committee Document No. 9, 2005, continue to improve the work system, improve quality in the handling of deputies' bills and proposals, expand their involvement in the work of the Standing Committee and special committees, better organize inspection tours and investigations and studies for them, improve the way they carry out activities in groups, intensify their training in special areas, provide better services for them, and get them to fully play their role in supervising state affairs.

We need to further strengthen and improve the NPC's foreign contacts, with the focus on exchanging high-level visits, effectively advancing regular exchanges with national parliaments and congresses of major countries, and actively participating in the preparations for and the activities of the Third World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments. We will earnestly engage in activities related to the Shanghai World Expo with foreign countries, expand and develop friendly dealings and cooperation with foreign parliaments and congresses on many levels and in many areas, continue to improve our overseas publicity work, and make better use of the NPC's role in foreign contact.

We need to further strengthen and improve the NPC's publicity work. We will strengthen organization and coordination; channel the orientation of public opinion; make full use of television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet and other new media; flexibly use all means of communication; and widely publicize the system of people's congresses and the latest progress of all the NPC's endeavors.

We need to further strengthen self-improvement. We will maintain the correct political orientation in the NPC's work throughout, and keep the Party, politics, the overall situation, the people, and the rule of law firmly in mind. We will undertake study on a large scale, stay close to the people, and work in a realistic and pragmatic manner. We will carry out thorough investigations and studies, organize workshops on special topics, and genuinely improve our capability to fulfill our duties in accordance with the law. We will make full use of special committees, strengthen coordination and collaboration between them, and improve the overall quality of their work. We will forge closer ties with standing committees of local people's congresses, learn from the positive experiences of local people's congresses in carrying out their duties in accordance with the law, and improve democracy and the legal system together. Bodies of the NPC should further improve their ideology and work style, their organizational systems, and their quality and capabilities; and collectively advise and assist and provide good services for NPC deputies, the Standing Committee, and special committees in the performance of their duties in accordance with the law.