On the afternoon of March 9, the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Committee on Constitution and Law henary meeting to conduct a unified review of the draft Code of Ecological and Environmental Law, the draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, and the draft Law on National Developmenning, based on the deliberation opinions of the delegations. In accordance with relevant provisions of the Legislation Law and other laws, legal bills included in the agenda of the National Peoplngress shall be subject to unified review by the Committee on Constitution and Law based on the deliberation opinions of the delegations. According to the schedule of the Fourth Sessi of the 14th NPC, on the morning of March 8, the delegations deliberated the draft Code of Ecological and Environmental Law, and in the afternoon, they deliberated tdraft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress and the draft Law on National Development Planning. The Bill Group of the General Office of the Congress promptly collected and collated the opinions raised by he deputies. The meeting of the Committee on Constitution and Law conducted a clause-by-clause study of the opinions raised by the deputies and made revisions and improvements to the three draft laws.mbers of the Committee on Constitution and Law unanimously agreed that the compilation of the Code of Ecological and Environmental Law and the enactment of the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress an on National Development Planning are major political and legislative tasks deployed by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core. They are major measures to implement the spir of the 20th CPC National Congress and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and are landmark legislation for building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese chaeristics and a socialist country under the rule of law at a higher level.

Members of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress unanimously believe that the compilation the Code of Ecological and Environmental Law, which codifies the theoretical, institutional, and practical achievements of ecological civilization construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Paty of China, will form a code that is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, possesses Chinese characteristireflects the features of the times and the will of the people, and is systematic, standardized, and coordinated. This holds great and far-reaching significance for advancing ecological civilization construction inew era along the path of the rule of law, comprehensively promoting the building of a Beautiful China, accelerating the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature, and realizing the development of the Chinese nation. Members of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress unanimously believe that the draft deeply implements Xi Jinping Thought on Sowith Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, comprehensively embodies the core essence, rich connotations, and practical requirements of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, and is based on the comprehensipromotion of the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature through the building of a Beautiful China. It systematically integrates, compiles, and elevates the legal system norms regarding eal pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, and green and low-carbon development. It transforms the Party Central Committee's decisions and plans regarding ecological civilization construction into codified provisions elevates the practical experience of ecological environmental protection in the new era into codified provisions. It is aimed at addressing prominent ecological and environmental problems strongly reflected by the people, possesses distinct characstics of the times and Chinese features, and will surely provide a complete ecological and environmental rule of law guarantee for fully building a modern socialist country and realizing the Second Centenary Goal, and comly advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization. It will also surely contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global ecological and environmental governance. At the se time, as a basic law in the field of ecological environment, the promulgation of the Code of Ecological and Environmental Law will have a significant impact on the socialist legal system with Chinese chaics centered on the Constitution, forming an ecological and environmental legal sector led by the Code of Ecological and Environmental Law and composed of relevant specialized laws.

Members of the Constitution and Law Committee unanimously agreed that the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is a major legislative initiative. Based on the historical posof the Party's ethnic work in the new era, it transforms General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on strengthening and improving ethnic work into the will of the state, and elevates the successfulperiences in advancing the building of the Chinese nation community and the cause of ethnic unity and progress since the 18th National Congress of the Party into legal provisions. It is of great significance for comprehensively advancing the cause of ethnic unity and progress, and for gathering tremendous strength to advance the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese mo

Members of the Committee on the Constitution and Law unanimously believe that the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is the basic law for implementing relevanrovisions of the Constitution, handling ethnic affairs, and carrying out ethnic work in the new era. The draft deeply implements Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics fow Era, fully implements the provisions, principles, and spirit of the Constitution, fully summarizes and reflects the major theoretical and practical achievements of the Party in ethnic work in the new era, takes clidating the sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main thread, declares the political stance of the Party and the state on ethnic work in the new era, clarifies the overall rs, important principles, and specific measures for the cause of ethnic unity and progress, improves the institutional mechanisms for consolidating the sense of community for the Chinese nation, and provides a strong leguarantee for unswervingly following the correct path with Chinese characteristics for solving ethnic problems. Members of the Committee on the Constitution and Law unanimously believe that formulating and implementing fivear plans is an important experience in the Party's governance of the country and an important political advantage of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Formulating the Law on National Development Planning is tant measure to implement the decisions and plans of the CPC Central Committee regarding national development planning work. It is of great significance for strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee o development planning work, better exerting the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, organizational capacity among the masses, and social appeal, and better converting the advantages of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics into development advantages.

Members of the Committee on the Constitution and Law unanimously believe that the Law on National Development Planning is a fundamental law based on the onstitution, regulating the formulation of national development plans and ensuring their implementation. The draft deeply implements Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implements the decisioand plans of the CPC Central Committee regarding national development planning, summarizes the successful experience of national development planning work over the long term, especially since the new era, establishes effective practices into legal itional norms, clarifies the guiding ideology, basic principles, and major concepts that national development planning work should adhere to, and makes comprehensive and systematic provisions for the compilation, review aplementation, and supervision of national development plans. This is conducive to improving the level of rule of law in national development planning work and providing a strong legal guarantee for better playing the stratguiding role of national development plans. Members of the Committee on the Constitution and Law unanimously believe that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress conducted two overall deliberations and two split dberations on the draft Code of Ecological and Environmental Law, soliciting public opinions four times; conducted two deliberations on the draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progressiting public opinions twice; and conducted three deliberations on the draft Law on National Development Planning, soliciting public opinions three times. It also organized National People's Congress deputies to stude drafts and solicited opinions from all sides through various means. The legislative process is a vivid practice of implementing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, upholding the organic unity the Party's leadership, the people's position as masters of the country, and law-based governance, practicing the major concept of whole-process people's democracy, and deeply advancing scientific, demtic, and law-based legislation. All three draft laws have well absorbed opinions from all sides and are now relatively mature and complete. In accordance with relevant laws, the Committee on the Constitution will submit to the Presidium of the Congress separate reports on the deliberation results and revised drafts of the three laws, for the Presidium to decide whether to submitvised drafts of the three laws to the delegations for deliberation. (Liao Xin She)