The development of a great country requires planning to come first. During this year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the deliberation of the draft of the National Development Planning Law and the review of the draft outline of the 15th Five Year Plan have been the focus of social attention. The National Development Planning Law, based on the Constitution, aims to regulate the formulation of national development plans and ensure their implementation. It will provide strong institutional guarantees for the scientific formulation and effective implementation of national development plans on the track of the rule of law. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that formulating and implementing the five-year plan is an important experience of our party in governing the country and an important political advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. It is conducive to realizing the leadership of the party, concentrating efforts to accomplish major tasks, grasping strategic issues in a forward-looking manner, and maintaining the continuity of the cause. From laying the foundation for the industrial system in the First Five Year Plan to embarking on a new journey of high-quality development in the 14th Five Year Plan, China has continuously formulated and implemented 14 five-year plans, each of which was formulated, implemented, and completed under the leadership of the Party Central Committee. It is these five years of relay progress that have linked the resolute pace of national development and created two rare miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. The national development plan is not only related to the future and destiny of the country, but also to the happy lives of billions of people. A good development plan is never the result of working in isolation, but an organic combination of top-level design and consulting with the people. In the national development planning work, China has formed an effective mechanism for absorbing public opinion and gathering people's wisdom. Taking the preparation of the "15th Five Year Plan" as an example, the one month online consultation activity launched in 2025 has received over 3.113 million suggestions from netizens, providing useful references for the preparation of the plan. These suggestions not only align with the overall development of the country, but also respond to people's livelihood concerns, and are a vivid practice of people's democracy throughout the entire process. The formulation of the National Development Planning Law is conducive to implementing the major concept of people's democracy throughout the entire process of national development planning work, enriching and expanding the forms and channels of democratic participation, and better reflecting that development is for the people, development relies on the people, and development achievements are shared by the people. At the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the central task of comprehensively building China into a modern socialist power, achieving the second centennial goal, and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization was established. The period of the 15th Five Year Plan is a crucial period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to achieve socialist modernization. At this historical juncture, the formulation of the National Development Planning Law establishes the successful experience and beneficial practices of national development planning work, especially since the new era, as legal system norms, and transforms the Party's propositions into the will of the country and the common action of the people through legal procedures. This is an inevitable requirement for better leveraging the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, an important measure to practice people's democracy throughout the entire process of national development planning work, a practical need to adhere to and improve the operation of the people's congress system, and an inherent requirement to better play the strategic guiding role of national development planning. Advancing the work related to national development planning on the track of rule of law not only helps to better leverage the advantages of the national system and governance effectiveness, resonance between the development blueprint and the original mission, but also effectively ensures that "a blueprint is drawn to the end". The review of the draft of the "Tenth Five Year Plan" and the review of the draft of the National Development Planning Law have been carried out simultaneously, forming a mutual echo between the preparation of the plan and the construction of the rule of law, which will lay a more solid foundation of the rule of law for the development blueprint of Chinese path to modernization and inject solid strength into stability and long-term development. We look forward to all representatives and members fulfilling their duties conscientiously, actively providing suggestions and contributions, and contributing wisdom and strength to the improvement of the draft of the National Development Planning Law and the draft outline of the 15th Five Year Plan. The vitality of the rule of law lies in implementation, and the value of planning lies in implementation. Whether it is the draft of the National Development Planning Law or the draft of the 15th Five Year Plan Outline, their future implementation requires all regions and departments to strengthen their awareness of the rule of law, strictly comply with legal provisions, and ensure that every requirement of the plan is implemented; It is necessary to establish a sound supervision mechanism to ensure that implementation does not deviate and planning does not fall through; It is even more necessary to gather the strength of the whole society, and in the relay running one after another, gather into a magnificent force to promote the progress of the country. Mountains and rivers are the scroll, and the rule of law is the pen. We firmly believe that using the power of the rule of law to ensure the full play of the strategic guidance role of national development planning will turn the country's development blueprint into a warm and beautiful reality in the hearts of millions of people, and make the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security more fulfilling, secure, and sustainable. (New Society)