2024-01-16 18:04:34
Accelerate legislation in key areas and vote to pass regulations such as the Building Green Development Regulations. The Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress completed a number of important legislation last year
82 regulatory items are included in the five-year legislative plan
On December 25, 2023, the three major cultural buildings in the sub-center of Beijing City – Beijing Art Center, Beijing City Library, and Beijing Grand Canal Museum (from left to right). According to the “Beijing Municipal Building Green Development Regulations”, public buildings in the city’s sub-center implement the three-star green building standard.Photo by Beijing News reporter Xue Jun
On October 18, 2023, Beijing traffic police went to Shuidi Beili Kindergarten to carry out a traffic safety promotion activity, and the cute baby transformed into a little traffic policeman to direct traffic.Photo by Beijing News reporter Wang Fei
On the morning of August 24, 2023, media reporters took photos in the supercomputer room of the Earth System Numerical Simulation Facility in the East District of Huairou Science City.Photo by Beijing News reporter Wang Zicheng
2023 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and is also the first year for the Standing Committee of the 16th Beijing Municipal People’s Congress to perform its duties. Over the past year, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, under the leadership of the Municipal Party Committee, has deeply practiced the whole process of people’s democracy, carried out legislation, supervision, representation and other work, and contributed to the development of the capital in the new era.
Legislation is an important function of the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee. At the beginning of last year, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress established the main points of work for the whole year and made clear plans and arrangements for legislative work. It clearly stated that we should speed up legislation in key areas, improve the legislative working mechanism, and scientifically prepare a five-year legislative plan.
Over the past year, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress has reviewed and voted on key areas such as strengthening the functional construction of the “four centers”, improving the level of the “four services”, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, ensuring and improving people’s livelihood, promoting green development, and improving the level of urban governance. A number of important local regulations. A number of important regulations including the Beijing Regulations on the Protection of Minors, the Regulations on the Green Development of Buildings, the Audit Regulations, and the formulation of local regulations were passed through voting. The Regulations on the Construction of the International Science and Technology Innovation Center have been reviewed by the Standing Committee several times and will also be submitted to the upcoming second session of the 16th National People’s Congress for review. Through this series of “large-scale” and “small-cut” legislative “combinations”, the legal basis for high-quality development in the capital has been continuously consolidated.
Last year, the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress completed the preparation and released a five-year legislative plan. The number of projects collected in this legislative planning is the highest in the previous legislative planning preparation process. The legislative planning is based on the current situation and tasks, and strives to reflect the development characteristics of the capital in the new era, fill in the shortcomings of laws and regulations, and comprehensively improve the quality of local legislation. These legislative projects focus on five aspects: improving the functions of the capital, promoting high-quality economic development, ensuring and improving people’s livelihood, strengthening urban governance, and promoting the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.
Looking back in 2023, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress will fully implement the newly revised Legislation Law, strictly abide by legislative authority, continue to deepen “open-door legislation”, make efforts to improve the quality of legislation, and make legislation responsible for ensuring the effective implementation of the Constitution and laws and ensuring the high quality of the capital. development and high-level governance.
Pass the building green development regulations with a focus on key issues
“Accelerating legislation in key areas” is an important content of the work points for the whole year of 2023 established by the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress.
The formulation of important local regulations such as the Regulations on the Construction of the International Science and Technology Innovation Center, the Regulations on the Promotion of Rural Revitalization, the Regulations on the Green Development of Buildings, and the Regulations on Foreign Investment are all legislative projects focused on key areas of the capital’s economic and social development.
Over the past year, the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee has reviewed many local regulations, including the Beijing Regulations on the Protection of Minors (Revised), the Beijing Measures for the Implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Law of the People’s Republic of China, and the Beijing Regulations on the Green Development of Buildings. The regulations were voted on.
For example, the Beijing Municipal Building Green Development Regulations are legislative projects in key areas that will be reviewed and voted on three times by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in 2023.
The construction industry is a key area for Beijing to achieve carbon neutrality. By the end of the “13th Five-Year Plan”, the energy consumption of civil buildings in China has accounted for more than 50% of the total energy consumption of the whole society, and the total building energy consumption will continue to rise with the growth of building area. To promote Beijing’s construction field to become more “green”, it is necessary to build a strong foundation for institutional design.
Be problem-oriented and find the right openings to “solve problems” in legislation.
During the legislative process of Beijing’s Green Building Development Regulations, the Urban Construction and Environmental Protection Office of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, together with the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Committee, systematically sorted out the issues reflected in the preliminary legislative research and formed a list of 54 issues covering 13 aspects. Six research topics were identified: “development and construction”, “planning and design”, “construction and operation”, “industrial development orientation”, “prefabricated buildings” and “urban sub-center”.
In the legislative process of the regulations, opinions are widely solicited through various methods to gather public opinions and incorporate people’s wisdom to the greatest extent. During the drafting and deliberation stage, representatives of the Municipal People’s Congress formed six special groups in relevant fields to conduct simultaneous research and form a special research report; through the members of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee Directors’ Meeting, they contacted the working mechanism of the District People’s Congress Standing Committee to solicit opinions; and used grassroots legislative contact points , rule of law construction consultant and other working systems, soliciting opinions from grassroots units, market entities, urban planning societies, lawyers associations, and experts and scholars in the field of law and industry.
“Legislation must fully consider the city’s ‘double carbon’ tasks and the legislative needs related to the implementation of the ’14th Five-Year Plan’.” The fourth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress conducted the first review of the draft regulations, and members of the Standing Committee reviewed the draft regulations. Comments and suggestions for modifications were put forward regarding system design and specific measures.
“It is necessary to study the costs related to the green development of buildings and the impact on the costs of people’s house purchase and decoration, to coordinate the green development of buildings and maintain cost stability.” One member proposed that legislation should promote the system to consider the burden of the people.
Before the third review, the Municipal People’s Congress Legal Committee, together with some members of the Standing Committee, went to the “three major buildings” in the city’s sub-center, the prefabricated housing construction project, and the Lize Financial Business District to discuss the construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings and prefabricated buildings. Carry out on-the-spot investigations on issues such as construction and other issues, and listen to opinions and suggestions from relevant entities participating in the construction, property service companies, grassroots legislative contact points and other units.
The Legislative Affairs Committee also solicited written opinions from relevant departments of the State Council, the legal construction consultant of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee and 12 grassroots legislative contact points on the second review draft of the draft. Combining the opinions of all parties, the Municipal People’s Congress Legal Committee held a meeting to conduct unified deliberation, and made modifications in aspects such as public participation and child-friendly transformation, and optimized and integrated some parts of the regulations.
The Building Green Development Regulations were reviewed three times and passed on November 24 last year. This legislation has also become an important measure to promote the goal of peaking carbon neutrality in urban and rural construction, promote green development in Beijing’s construction sector, enhance building quality, improve the living environment, and promote high-quality development of the capital.
Revise regulations on the protection of minors in response to social concerns
Looking back at the legislative work of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee in 2023, there are not only legislative projects focusing on important areas of capital development, such as the above-mentioned building green development regulations, but also the completion of important legislative work that responds to people’s livelihood concerns.
The first local regulation passed by the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress is such an example.
On May 26, 2023, the third meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress voted to adopt the Regulations on the Protection of Minors. On June 1, 2023, the 73rd International Children’s Day, the regulations will come into effect. This is the fifth revision since the regulations were promulgated in 1988. It is also the first local regulation passed by the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress, which fully reflects the importance Beijing attaches to the protection of minors.
On November 24, 2022, the 45th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 15th Municipal People’s Congress conducted its first review of the “Beijing Regulations on the Protection of Minors (Revised Draft)” submitted by the municipal government. After in-depth investigation and careful study, the Social Construction Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress proposed the second review draft of the revised draft at the second meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress on March 23, 2023. It also focused on “physical and mental health protection” and “strengthening the network”. Strengthen the protection of minors in terms of “protection responsibility” and “improve government safeguard measures”.
After the second review of the regulations, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee (renamed the Legal Affairs Committee from the Legal Affairs Office of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee in January 2024) conducted a series of investigations and studies around the issues raised during the Standing Committee’s deliberations, and Convened a research symposium to listen to the opinions of the Municipal Health Commission, Education Commission, Medical Insurance Bureau, Finance Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau, Women and Children’s Working Committee, Youth League Committee and some experts, scholars, and social workers on the topic of mental health protection of minors. On the topic of protection, we listened to the opinions of the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Municipal Party Committee and Internet companies such as Douyin and NetEase.
At the same time, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee also organized a trip to Beijing No. 156 Middle School to listen to the opinions of educators and students.
During the investigation at No. 156 Middle School in Beijing, the children spoke enthusiastically. “A child mentioned that the draft requires accommodation operators to check ID cards and roommate information when accepting minors. She said that when her parents took her to a B&B, they did not check these and B&Bs should be included. This suggestion was adopted,” said Zhang Xuemei, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress and deputy director of the Beijing Juvenile Legal Aid and Research Center. In the process of revising the regulations, the legislative opinions of minors will be fully listened to.
In accordance with the requirements of the legislative consultation working mechanism, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee conducted consultation and research with the Municipal People’s Congress Social Construction Committee, the Municipal Justice Bureau, and the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau. On the basis of extensive solicitation of opinions, full communication and research, and comprehensive analysis and judgment, the ideas for the revision work were further clarified, and the second review draft of the revised draft was revised and improved.
Zhang Xuemei participated in the entire process of revising the regulations. According to her, “It took more than two years from the establishment of the regulations to the deliberation and adoption. During this period, we publicly solicited public opinions several times, conducted dozens of research discussions, and fully attracted people’s congress representatives at all levels, experts and scholars, school teachers, minors, etc. , the public, government departments, judiciary agencies, social organizations and other relevant suggestions are to ensure that legislation can reflect the principle that is most beneficial to minors to the greatest extent.”
Improve the legislative working mechanism to condense the “greatest common denominator” of legislation
Improving the legislative work mechanism is an important requirement for legislative work put forward by the Standing Committee of the 16th National People’s Congress when establishing the key points of work for the whole year of 2023.
How to improve the mechanism? The Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress follows the legislative work pattern of “party committee leadership, National People’s Congress dominance, government support, and participation of all parties”, improves the research and drafting mechanism of “early intervention, special class promotion, and ‘double leader system'” and improves the “four fronts and four parties” consultation mechanism, actively carry out legislative consultations, and strengthen and improve legislative research. In addition, the Standing Committee also proposed that the press conference system and the “door-to-door delivery of laws and regulations” mechanism should be adhered to.
For example, the Urban Construction and Environmental Protection Office of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress adopted a representative survey approach during the legislative process of building green development, organizing representatives of the Municipal People’s Congress in relevant fields to form 6 research groups, systematically conduct in-depth research and write reports, and gather the “maximum legislative ideas”. common divisor”.
Since the launch of the special survey on representatives at the end of March last year, the Urban Construction and Environmental Protection Office of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress has organized more than 20 research discussions, with nearly 80 representatives participating. Each research team gave full play to their professional expertise and industry resources, visited different types of buildings such as residences, office buildings, and old factories, and conducted in-depth inspections of building component production, construction, construction waste resource utilization and other related industries, to gain a comprehensive understanding of prefabricated, Six special research reports were formed on different technical paths such as ultra-low energy consumption and renewable energy applications. In view of the difficult and blocking problems in practice and the legislative needs of all parties, targeted legislative suggestions and work countermeasures were put forward, providing strong system design support for legislation.
Adhere to “open-door legislation” and broaden participation channels. For example, after the third meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress conducted its first review of the “Beijing Municipal Measures for the Implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft)”, relying on the grassroots legislative contact point of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee Through nine representative websites, the Legal Affairs Committee listened extensively to grassroots voices and understood the wishes of the people.
Take the grassroots legislative contact point of Tiantongyuan North Street as an example. On June 6 last year, the Tianbei Street Representative House organized Changping District People’s Congress representatives, the District Transportation Bureau, Tiantongyuan North Police Station, Beijing Subway Operation Branch Lishuiqiao Station, Beijing Gonglian Passenger Terminal Operation Co., Ltd., Tiantongyuan North Passenger Terminal, About 20 people from the Judicial Office, Urban Management Office and other departments and residents in the jurisdiction held a symposium and extensively solicited opinions and suggestions on the “Implementation Measures (Draft)” through residents’ WeChat groups, community networks and other online methods.
Another example is the “Regulations on the Construction of the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center”, which is a key piece of legislation and has attracted much attention. In order to build consensus, the Education, Science, Culture and Health Office of the Municipal People’s Congress and the Legal Affairs Committee have solicited opinions from the public on the regulations (draft) many times through platform channels such as the Municipal People’s Congress portal website.
Adhering to the press conference system after the passage of regulations is an important part of the legislative working mechanism.
On May 26 last year, on the day when the Regulation on the Protection of Minors was passed, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress held a press conference, and responsible comrades from the Legal Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress and the Civil Affairs Bureau conducted interpretations of the regulations and publicity on the law.
At this press conference, more than 20 central and municipal media made in-depth reports. A public report stated that Beijing formulated local regulations before national legislation, and then comprehensively revised the national minors protection law. The regulations fully reflect the executive, supplementary and exploratory functions of local legislation, solidify practical experience, improve protection standards, and gather synergy for protection.
Prepare a five-year legislative plan and arrange 82 regulatory projects
Scientifically formulating a five-year legislative plan is also an important legislative task of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress in 2023.
At the beginning of 2023, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress put forward requirements – to focus on implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party, promoting the development requirements of the capital in the new era, responding to the major concerns of the people, closely following the process of national legislative amendments, and organically combining overall certainty and necessary flexibility. Combined, the five-year legislative tasks will be arranged scientifically and rationally.
The legislative planning preparation work actually started in October 2021 with preliminary preparation and basic research work. Since its launch, until March last year, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress had conducted an extensive collection of suggestions for legislative planning projects.
It is reported that the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress has launched three rounds of solicitation of suggestions from the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee, the Office of the Municipal Party Committee’s Law-based Governance of the City, the Municipal Government and the offices of various committees, various working agencies of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, the CPPCC, the Municipal High Court, the Municipal High Court, and The Procuratorate, Municipal Law Society, Municipal Lawyers Association, district people’s congresses and governments, as well as people’s congress deputies, grassroots legislative contact points, the public, and expert consultants solicited suggestions for legislative planning projects. A total of 396 items were collected, which were combined to 208. The number of projects is the highest in the previous legislative planning preparation process.
From March to the end of May last year, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress conducted in-depth investigations and focused on screening and demonstration. The leaders of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress led the team to go deep into the grassroots and actual practice. They successively visited the Beijing Citizen Hotline Service Center (12345), the grassroots legislative contact point of Chaowai Street, the Mentougou Jingxi Ancient Road, etc. to conduct a series of surveys, and invited members of the legislative planning work team Units, relevant departments, grassroots units, National People’s Congress representatives, CPPCC members, citizen representatives, experts and scholars jointly participated in the in-depth investigation and screening of legislative plans. At the same time, special research was conducted on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative legislation-related work.
From June to October 2023, on the basis of full research and demonstration and soliciting opinions from the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the “Legislative Plan of the Standing Committee of the 16th Beijing Municipal People’s Congress (Draft)” was formed and submitted to the Municipal Party Committee for comprehensive It will be reviewed by the Municipal Committee for the Rule of Law and submitted to the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee for discussion and approval.
The legislative planning is based on the current situation and tasks, and strives to reflect the development characteristics of the capital in the new era, fill in the shortcomings of laws and regulations, and comprehensively improve the quality of local legislation. A total of 82 regulatory projects have been arranged, divided into two categories based on practical urgency and project maturity: Category 1 projects include 42 regulations that have been formulated and revised during the term; Category 2 projects include research and drafting during the term and will be formulated when conditions are mature , 40 regulations were revised.
These legislative projects focus on five aspects: improving the functions of the capital, promoting high-quality economic development, ensuring and improving people’s livelihood, strengthening urban governance, and promoting the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.
For example, focusing on the strategic positioning of the capital city, the legislative plan proposes regulations on the construction of an international science and technology innovation center, legislation related to the construction of an international exchange center, regulations on the construction and management of urban sub-centers, and legislation related to the field of serving and guaranteeing the China International Fair for Trade in Services.
There are 23 legislative items to protect and improve people’s livelihood, involving regulations on heat supply and heat management, regulations on safety management of building construction, legislation related to elderly care services, measures to implement the food security law, regulations on housekeeping services, etc., all of which are closely related to people’s lives. local regulations.
On November 24, 2023, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress held a press conference to announce and interpret to the public the legislative planning of the 16th Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee.
Regarding the characteristics of this five-year plan, the person in charge of the relevant working agency of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress introduced that the plan closely focuses on the major decisions of the Party Central Committee and the work deployment of the Municipal Party Committee, and is guided by the development of the capital in the new era, highlighting the improvement of the functions of the capital and promoting high-quality economic development. Develop and promote the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Adhere to the people-centered value orientation and thoroughly practice people’s democracy throughout the process. Give full play to the executive, supplementary and exploratory functions of local legislation. Scientifically arrange legislative projects and rationally allocate legislative resources.
“The preparation and implementation of the five-year legislative plan is an important part of strengthening the Party’s centralized and unified leadership over legislative work. It is an important starting point for giving full play to the leading role of the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee in legislative work. It is also important for fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party. It is of great significance to implement the decisions and arrangements of the central government and the requirements of the municipal party committee,” said Wang Rongmei, director of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee.
Beijing News chief reporter Wu Wei
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