NPC system significant for China

On Sept 14, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at a conference celebrating the 70th anniversary of the people's congress system. He noted that over the past 70 years, the system of people's congresses has demonstrated its political strength, providing an important institutional guarantee for achieving rapid economic development and long-term social stability. The people's congress system is a crucial component of China's political structure, a key element of the country's political system and an important institutional part of whole-process people's democracy. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, especially since the launch of reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970s, the people's congress system has helped the Communist Party of China to lead the people in performing an economic miracle and realizing long-term social stability. It has also helped the country establish true democracy.