The legislature is responsible for enacting laws and overseeing the executive branch in a democratic system.
立法机构在民主体系中负责制定法律并监督行政部门。
The assembly of the legislature is currently in session, debating important bills and amendments.
立法机构的会议正在进行中，正在讨论重要的议案和修正案。
The legislature holds public hearings to gather input from citizens on proposed legislation.
立法机构举行公开听证会，收集公民对提议立法的意见。
The legislature has the power to impeach the governor if they commit high crimes or misdemeanors.
如果州长犯有重罪或轻罪，立法机构有权弹劾他们。
A bill passed by the legislature was signed into law by the governor, making it official.
立法机构通过的法案被州长签署成为法律。
The legislature is divided into two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
立法机构通常分为两个议院：参议院和众议院。
The legislature is composed of elected representatives who represent the interests of their constituents.
立法机构由当选代表组成，他们代表选民的利益。
The legislature is expected to pass a budget proposal before the fiscal year begins.
立法机构应在财政年度开始前通过预算提案。
The legislature often debates controversial issues, such as healthcare reform or tax policies.
立法机构常常就如医疗改革或税收政策等争议性问题进行辩论。
The legislature is an essential part of a checks and balances system, ensuring that no one branch of government becomes too powerful.
立法机构是权力制衡体系的重要组成部分，确保政府各部门不会过度集权。
China will intensify efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment, according to a government work report unveiled on March 5 at the first session of the 14th National People's Congress, the national legislature.
根据3月5日在国家立法机构第十四届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上公布的政府工作报告，中国将加大吸引和利用外资的力度。
Editor's Note: During the two sessions, the annual sittings of China's top legislature and political advisory body, which are being held from March 4 to 13, China Daily is publishing interviews with executives of major foreign enterprises operating in the country.
编者按：在3月4日至13日举行的中国最高立法机构和政治咨询机构的年度两会期间，《中国日报》刊登了对在中国经营的主要外国企业高管的采访。
The two sessions, or the annual sittings of China's top legislature and the top political advisory body, are slated for early March.
两会，即中国最高立法机构和最高政治咨询机构的年度会议，定于3月初举行。
In the latest development, the Philippines' legislature ratified the pact on Tuesday.
最新进展是，菲律宾立法机构周二批准了该协议。
In his proposal to this year's two sessions－the annual meetings of China's top legislature and political advisory body－Li called for intensified efforts to support more homegrown companies to participate in key fields in industrial chains and improve the industrial chain of the Chinese manufacturing sector.
李在今年的两会（中国最高立法机构和政治咨询机构的年会）上提出的建议中，呼吁加大力度支持更多本土企业参与产业链的关键领域，改善中国制造业的产业链。
Li's call came at the "two sessions", the annual gathering of the National People's Congress, China's national legislature, and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, its top political advisory body.
李的呼吁是在“两会”上发出的，这是中国最高政治咨询机构全国人民代表大会和全国政协的年度会议。
Editor's Note: Amid challenges including geopolitical tensions and the tightening policies by major central banks, the focus has been on how the two sessions－the annual sittings of China's national legislature and top political advisory body－will map out this year's policy agenda to navigate the world's second-largest economy through headwinds and further open up its vast market to the rest of the world.
编者按：在地缘政治紧张局势和主要央行紧缩政策等挑战中，人们关注的焦点是，中国全国人大和最高政治咨询机构的年度两会将如何制定今年的政策议程，以引导这个世界第二大经济体渡过难关，并进一步向世界其他地区开放其庞大的市场。
The BRI has enriched the growth of the world economy and improved people's living standards in economies participating in the initiative, said Zhou Yong, a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, during this year's two sessions, the annual sittings of the top legislature and the top political advisory body, in March.
“一带一路”倡议丰富了世界经济的增长点，提升了参与国家民众的生活水平，周勇在全国两会期间说。两会是中国最高立法机关和最高政治咨询机构每年召开的会议。
He is a deputy to the top legislature.
他是最高立法机构的代表。
For five years in a row, Zhou Yunjie has sought to promote industrial internet at the two sessions, the annual sittings of China's top legislature and top political advisory body.
周云杰连续五年在全国两会期间为工业互联网发声。
While local farmers earned a total of 100 million yuan ($14.9 million) per year selling straw, industries associated with the new power plant have created 4,000 jobs, said Li during an interview at the annual meetings of China's top legislature and top political advisory body.
Localization refers to POWERCHINA's desire to have its international businesses improve economic and social development as well as environmental protection in local areas, among other things by respecting local cultures, following local legislatures, and benefiting local residents through education and employment, added DingThe strategy of internationalization means to gradually reduce POWERCHINA's Chinese features when it is doing international business to provide targeted services for various nations and regions around the world, said DingHosted by Song Dongsheng, president of POWERCHINA-Intl, the launch ceremony was addressed by Edward Akwasi Boateng, ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to China, and Francisco Carlo Escobar Pedreschi, ambassador of the Republic of Panama to China.
In a striped black suit over a white full-sleeved shirt, with a pair of glasses on, Wang appeared amiable and down to earth in Beijing during the annual meetings of the top legislature and the top political advisory body.
Along with multiple ministries, the CSRC would search for candidate companies engaged in areas like industrial internet and artificial intelligence, Yan told reporters on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the top legislature on Thursday.
Li is in Beijing for the ongoing session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which runs almost in parallel with the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's national legislature.
The draft revision, submitted to a session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress — China's top legislature — focuses on strengthening the framework of capital contributions, as well as clarifying resolution procedures for deprivation of rights and the dissenting process for shareholders subject to deprivation.
Deemed as a move indicating policymakers' emphasis on paving the way for solid growth in 2024, China's top legislature approved additional treasury bond issuances worth 1 trillion yuan ($137.1 billion) in late October, bringing this year's deficit-to-GDP ratio to about 3.8 percent.
Deemed as a move that indicates policymakers' emphasis on paving the way for solid growth in 2024, China's top legislature approved additional treasury bond issuances worth 1 trillion yuan ($137.2 billion) in late October.
For instance, the country's top legislature recently approved additional treasury bond issuances worth 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion) in the fourth quarter, suggesting the country is adopting a pro-growth stance and will likely take more steps to bolster the world's second-largest economy in the near term.
They said policy steps that are likely to be taken for the rest of the year to consolidate the recovery may include cuts in interest rates and banks' reserve requirement ratios, further property market easing and more forceful measures to vitalize the capital market, after the country's top legislature recently adopted additional treasury bond issuances worth 1 trillion yuan ($136.7 billion).
Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, pledged efforts to encourage financial institutions to further reduce real lending interest rates, while delivering a report on Saturday to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature.
Hao Mingjin, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, said China remains committed to high-level opening-up policy, unwaveringly extending a hand to multinational corporations with enhanced investment collaboration prospects, carving out a more expansive sphere for development, establishing sustainable 'green' growth initiatives, and nurturing a more conducive investment climate.
The draft law was submitted Monday to a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, for a second reading.
On Aug 26, 1980, the 15th session of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, China's top legislature, approved the establishment of Special Economic Zones in Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou in Guangdong, and Xiamen, Fujian province.
Hao Mingjin, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, said at the opening ceremony that Northeast Asia is one of the world's most dynamic growth regions.
The country's top legislature on June 28 voted to designate Aug 15 as National Ecology Day, aiming to enhance public awareness and encourage actions to protect the ecological environment.
"Dimitri de Boer, regional director for Asia at the environmental law organization ClientEarth, highlighted the law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which was adopted by China's top legislature in April and is set to take effect in September, as "extremely important".
"With the continuous, deepening consensus between China and Europe for green economic development, the establishment of a green cooperation partnership between the two sides has become a new driving force and a highlight of advancing China-EU cooperation," said Shao Ning, a former vice-director of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
As the enterprises get more shares in local markets with such operations, their imports from China, including key equipment, components and materials, will help expand China's exports, said Li, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
He met the press on Monday after the closing of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress, the country's top legislature.
He was speaking at his first news conference as premier following the conclusion of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
Premier Li Qiang said on Monday he has full confidence in China's economic prospects, as he took questions from the media after the conclusion of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
Opening-up is a basic State policy for China, and no matter how the external situation may evolve, the country will stay firmly committed to pursuing the policy, said Chinese Premier Li Qiang at a news conference on Monday after the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, closed the first session.
On the sidelines of the two sessions, the annual sittings of China's top legislature and top political advisory body, Jin Zhuanglong, minister of industry and information technology, said that the country will ramp up efforts to stabilize industrial growth and speed up the building of a modern industrial system.
Fu Guirong, a deputy to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, submitted the proposal during the annual session of the NPC this year.
should be carried out in a more coordinated way to create synergy for high-quality development," said the report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
They made the comments as a reform plan for creating a new regulator for data governance was submitted to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Tuesday for deliberation.
The country aims to expand its economy by around 5 percent in 2023, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
周日，一份政府工作报告提交给全国人大审议，报告中指出，该国计划在2023年将其经济规模扩大约5%。
China will further its efforts to attract and utilize more foreign investment this year, as outlined in the Government Work Report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on Sunday.
As nation sharpens focus on growth, foreign firms ramp up investments, expand operationsAs China's ongoing two sessions — the annual sittings of the nation's top legislature and top political advisory body — reaffirm the economic policy's thrust on steady growth, multinational corporations operating in China said they are optimistic about their long-term business prospects.
The report, which has been submitted to the top legislature for deliberation, suggested that China seek to push forward its modernization drive, promote high-quality development, better balance COVID-19 prevention and social and economic development, comprehensively deepen reform and opening-up, and vigorously boost market confidence.
In response to changes in the external environment, China pursued a more proactive strategy of opening up and worked to boost reform and development with high-standard opening up, said the report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
China developed new ways of conducting macro regulation to keep the economy operating within an appropriate range over the past five years, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
"We will stay committed to an independent foreign policy of peace and to peaceful development and pursue friendship and cooperation with other countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence," according to the report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
China has deepened reform of key areas and crucial links over the past five years to energize the market and stimulate social creativity, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
- China expanded effective domestic demand and promoted coordinated regional development and new urbanization over the past five years, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
- China should effectively prevent and defuse major economic and financial risks in 2023, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- China will expand domestic demand this year, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- China will unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector and unswervingly encourage, support and guide the development of the non-public sector, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
China will intensify efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
The high-tech manufacturing sector has become an important driving force for China's high-quality development, said Li, who is a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
In his proposal to this year's two sessions, the annual meetings of China's top legislature and the top political advisory body, Li called for efforts to step up support for high-tech manufacturing enterprises in research and development input, improve financing environment, lower production costs and alleviate existing burdens on enterprises.
With the annual two sessions approaching, markets are closely watching how the nation will calibrate its fiscal and monetary policies when the country's top legislature and top political advisory body meet.
The survey's results are seen as a barometer of how people worldwide view the two sessions, which are the annual meetings of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body.
During the relevant annual provincial legislature sittings and key economic conferences, they have mapped out specific measures to develop the digital economy.
East China's Zhejiang adopted a newly revised set of regulations to foster the growth of its micro, small and medium enterprises at the annual session of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress, the provincial legislature, which concluded on Monday.
In light of the new developments, in 2021, he spearheaded the efforts in drafting and then submitting the proposal to make the amendment to the provincial legislature.
The provincial legislature passed the Regulations of Zhejiang Province on the Promotion of Private Enterprises in January 2020, making Zhejiang the first province to enact such regulations in China.
In the government work report he delivered to the provincial legislature last Thursday, Wang Hao, the provincial governor, pointed out that the province will make it a top priority to comprehensively optimize the business environment in the next five years, enhance the core competitiveness of private businesses and strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights.
The city also aims to increase its investment in fixed assets, total retail sales of consumer goods, and total import and export value, by 10 percent, 6 percent, and 3 percent, respectively, said the city's mayor Hu Henghua while delivering the government work report at the municipal legislature.
Shanghai has empowered lawmakers in Pudong New Area so that they can optimize the business environment and promote further reform and innovation in frontier areas, the city's legislature said.
"The 15 laws, which have been made to optimize the district's business environment, improve its urban governance, promote industrial upgrading, encourage independent innovation and develop green ecology, and adhere to the mission of leading in making Pudong a pioneer of socialist modernization," Mo Fuchun, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai People's Congress, the city's legislature, said during a media briefing over the weekend.
Following the guideline, on June 7, 2021, Shanghai's legislature was authorized to create laws specific to Pudong New Area in accordance with its needs for reform and innovation.
According to the authorization by the country's top legislature, while sticking to the constitution and current laws and regulations, Shanghai legislators can make changes to relevant laws, administrative regulations and department rules, which will only be effective in Pudong.
The Shanghai legislature will continue to improve the quality and efficiency of Pudong New Area's legislation, and provide a more powerful rule of law for its high-level reform and opening-up, according to Yan.
Actually, the recent New Year holiday has already witnessed a strong recovery in tourism and retail sales in Shanghai," said Dora Liu, deputy CEO of Deloitte China, also a deputy to the municipal legislature.
Mayor Gong Zheng announced the goal on Wednesday while delivering the municipal government work report at the ongoing first session of the 16th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, the city's legislature.
Pudong New Area, the eastern part of Shanghai, should better use its legislative power, which was granted by the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, in July 2021, so that financial management can be better connected to the judicial and legislative systems, Sun said.
The rules, adopted at a municipal legislature meeting, will give emphasis to stepping up the construction of digital economy infrastructure, beefing up basic research, tackling core difficulties with technology, and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of industrial digitalization, said Wang Lei, deputy head of the municipal bureau of economy and information technology.
"In pursuit of the new dual-circulation development, China will increase investments in scientific and technological innovations and bolster the integration of digital technology development and economic and social development," said Zhang Chunxian, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, at the fair's opening ceremony on Thursday morning.
They made the comments after the revised Anti-Monopoly Law was passed at a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, in late June and will take effect on Aug 1.
The revised Anti-monopoly Law was passed at a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Friday and will take effect on Aug 1.
The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, approved on Friday the amendment to the Antimonopoly Law, which will take effect on August 1 this year.
A draft amendment to the Antimonopoly Law was submitted to China's top legislature for a second review on Tuesday, with revisions in areas including the safe harbor mechanism, platform economy and concentration of business operators.
Editor's Note: Amid challenges including geopolitical tensions and the tightening policies by major central banks, the focus has been on how the two sessions-the annual sittings of China's national legislature and top political advisory body-map out this year's policy agenda to navigate the world's second-largest economy through headwinds and further open up its vast market to the rest of the world.
During this year's two sessions, the annual sittings of China's national legislature and the top political advisory body that ended on Friday, many political advisers from the field of economics shared their views on the Government Work Report and hailed the government's new efforts to support smaller businesses.
Huang Maoxing, a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, suggested that export-oriented private enterprises in China may face more pressure from the evolving global situations just as in other countries.
The replacement of old home appliances, with an emphasis on promoting green consumption, has come under the spotlight during this year's two sessions, the annual meetings of China's top legislature and political advisory body.
- China will formulate laws on tariffs and other taxes in 2022, according to a work report submitted Tuesday to the country's national legislature for review.
Editor's Note: Amid challenges including geopolitical tensions and the tightening policies by major central banks, the focus has been on how the two sessions－the annual sittings of China's national legislature and top political advisory body－map out this year's policy agenda to navigate the world's second-largest economy through headwinds and further open up its vast market to the rest of the world.
- In optimizing the structure of government spending, China will provide priority support for key projects that have been included in the 14th Five-Year Plan and specific plans in key areas, according to a draft budget report submitted to China's top legislature on Saturday.
"A government work report submitted to the national legislature said the total volume of tax refunds and cuts will total around 2.5 trillion yuan ($395 billion) in 2022.
"As a CPPCC member who serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs and works in the financial sector, I expect this year's macroeconomic policies to work in a way that helps to improve China's economic structure, address risks and deepen reforms, as this will be crucial for maintaining stability while pursuing growth, the overarching goal set for 2022 at the Central Economic Work Conference," Hu said in an exclusive interview with China Daily before the kickoff of the two sessions, the annual sittings of China's national legislature and the top political advisory body.
The upcoming two sessions-the annual sittings of China's national legislature and top political advisory body-are likely to set a "prudent" monetary policy tone as usual but emphasize that the monetary policy should provide appropriately ample liquidity and increase financial support to the real economy, Wang said.
That's why I believe the upcoming two sessions, or the annual sittings of China's national legislature and the top political advisory body, will announce more measures to bolster consumption growth.
It is a theme that will likely dominate the economic policy agenda of the nation's top legislature and top political advisory body when they meet for the annual "two sessions "in the first half of March.
In an interaction on Tuesday with media ahead of the two sessions, or the annual sittings of China's top legislature and the top political advisory body, Liu Kun, China's finance minister, said this year, the government will carry out tax and fee cuts of a more sizable scale, hoping that it will generate greater sense of gains for market players.
A regulation protecting the rights and interests of foreign investors will take effect on March 1 in Guangdong province, according to the local legislature.
"By Wednesday, some 30 provincial-level regions had concluded the annual sessions of the legislatures and political advisory bodies, with regional annual economic growth targets set for the year.
Continuing tax and fee cuts are seen as one of the areas of consensus at the recently concluded annual sessions of provincial-level legislatures and political advisory bodies.
The document will be deliberated at the top legislature's annual session in March.
"We'll accelerate the construction of the Lin-gang New Area in the pilot free trade zone, implement stress testing to a greater degree and promote the construction of the core area of a powerful global city," said Gong as he delivered the municipal government's work report at the ongoing sixth session of the 15th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, the city's legislature.
The revised law was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, last week.
The revised Law on Progress of Science and Technology was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, last week.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, received a draft amendment to the Anti-monopoly Law for the first reading.
The country's top legislature has just adopted a decision to authorize the State Council to pilot property tax reforms in certain regions.
On Saturday, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature, adopted a decision to authorize the State Council, China's Cabinet, to launch pilot property tax reforms in designated regions.
- The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, on Saturday adopted a decision to authorize the State Council to pilot property tax reforms in certain regions.
China is on track to revise the Anti-Monopoly Law as lawmakers began deliberating on draft amendments submitted to the country's top legislature on Tuesday.
The draft amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law was submitted on Tuesday to the ongoing session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, the top legislature, for review.