Qiushi journal ｜ Excerpt: development process of grass -roots legislation contact points

(Excerpts from “Local Legislative Outreach Offices: A Vivid Example of Whole-Process People’s Democracy in China” by Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Qiushi Journal, No. 02, 2022)

Development process of grass -roots legislation contact points

Development Path of Local Legislative Outreach Offices (LLOOS)

In October 2014, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to propose to establish a grass -roots legislative contact point system.

At its fourth planary session in October 2014, the 18th cpc center committee decided to intropuce the lloo system.

In July 2015, the Legal Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress reported on the approval of the Shanghai Hongqiao Street Office, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Lintong County of Gansu Province, the Standing Committee of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province Pilot units of legislative contact points of the base layer.

In July 2015, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee approved the first group of LLOO pilot institutions: the Hongqiao Sub-district Office in Shanghai, the Standing Committee of the Lintao County People's Congress in Gansu Province, the Standing Committee of the Jingdezhen Municipal People's Congress in Jiangxi Province, and the Standing Committee of the Xiangyang Municipal's Conne Hubei PROVINCE.

The Legal Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress established the second and third batch of grass -roots legislative contact points in July 2020 and July 2021. At this point, the number of grass -roots legislative contacts established by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has increased to 22, covering 2/3 provinces across the country, and radiation has driven the country to set up 427 provincial legislative contact points and 4350 municipal legislatures in the city -level legislation. connections.

The Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee established the second group of LLOOs in July 2020 and the third in July 2021. To date, it has launched 22 LLOOs in two-thirds of the country's provinces, which have prompted the establishment of 427 outreach Offices at the proveincial level and 4,350 at the prefection level.

Source: "Seeking" English version

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