The 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress concluded on the morning of the 6th at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. After voting, the meeting passed decisions on fifteen laws including the Public Interest Litigation Law, the Antarctic Activities and Environmental Protection Law, the newly revised Water Law, the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, and the Amendment to the Emergency Response Law; it was decided to remove Li Lecheng from the post of Minister of Industry and Information Technology. President Xi Jinping signed Presidential Orders No. 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 and 91 respectively. Chairman Zhao Leji presided over the closing meeting.
154 members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting, and the number of attendees met the quorum.
The meeting voted to approve the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to approve the Agreement on the Establishment of the World Cooperation Organization on Artificial Intelligence.
The meeting voted and approved the reports submitted by the Supervisory and Judicial Committee, the Financial and Economic Committee, the Environment and Resource Protection Committee, the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, and the Social Construction Committee of the National People's Congress respectively on the results of the deliberation of the bills submitted by the representatives submitted to the Presidium of the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation.
The meeting voted and approved the report of the Representative Qualification Review Committee of the National People's Congress Standing Committee on the representative qualifications of individual representatives.
The meeting voted to appoint Wang Junzheng and Wang Ning as deputy directors of the National People's Congress Ethnic Affairs Committee, Wang Kai as deputy directors of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Committee, Gong Zheng and Mao Weiming as deputy directors of the National People's Congress Financial and Economic Committee, and Liang Yanshun and Wang Yubo as deputy directors of the National People's Congress Education Committee. Vice-chairmen of the Science, Culture and Health Committee, Liu Ning, Ren Zhenhe and Wang Zhengpu are deputy chairmen of the National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Shen Xiaoming and Wang Qingxian are deputy chairmen of the National People's Congress Social Construction Committee; Chen Fuli is removed from the position of deputy secretary-general of the National People's Congress Standing Committee.
The meeting voted to adopt the National People's Congress Standing Committee's decision to accept Chen Fuli's request to resign as a member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and other positions.
The meeting also voted on other appointments and dismissals.
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Hongzhong, Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Zheng Jianbang, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, He Wei, Wu Weihua, Tiening, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Luosang Jiangcun, Xuekelati Zakir, and Secretary-General Liu Qi attended the meeting.
Vice Premier Liu Guozhong of the State Council, Director of the National Supervisory Commission Liu Jinguo, President of the Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Ying Yong, members of various special committees of the National People's Congress, responsible comrades of the Standing Committees of the People's Congresses of various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, major responsible comrades of the Standing Committees of the People's Congresses of some sub-provincial cities, some representatives of the National People's Congress, and responsible comrades of relevant departments attended the meeting.
After the closing meeting, the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress held the 25th special lecture, chaired by Chairman Zhao Leji. Gao Xiang, President and Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a lecture titled "In-depth Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and Persistently Promote Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party."
