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The Constitution was adopted in 1954 after its passage at the First National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature. His experience proved essential when China pulled itself out of the chaotic 10-year “cultural revolution” (1966-76) during which even parts of the Constitution existed only in name. In March 1979, he joined the secretariat staff of the Standing Committee of the 5th NPC and was entrusted to work for its Legal Committee. His job, complicated but crucial, has been to follow NPC deputies’ proposals concerning legal affairs, to help gather legal professionals and other experts together to draft the laws, and to prepare legal portfolios of these draft laws for the NPC deputies to examine before they deliberate and decide whether the NPC should adopt the drafts as law or advise on further changes. Xiang, former deputy director of the Legal Affairs Working Committee of the NPC Standing Committee, once said: “Before the ‘cultural revolution,’ China had only the Constitution, the Marriage Law and a few other laws. Such basic laws as the Criminal Law and the Civil Law were not available. “But today, almost all the basic laws guaranteeing the legal rights of citizens and governing the law and order of the society are in place.” The mission of building the legal system was restarted in 1979 after China steered itself towards economic development and modernization. The 1982 Constitution officially established the lawmaking mechanism under which the NPC and its standing committee could enact laws. It also granted the State Council powers to work out administrative legislation, and allowed people’s congresses at local level and their standing committees, to exercise local legislative power while giving leeway to autonomous ethnic minority areas. At the end of last month, the NPC and its standing committee had adopted four amendments to the 1982 Constitution, 329 laws, 139 aspects of decisions concerning laws and 10 legislative interpretations. The State Council has worked out more than 800 administrative regulations, and local people’s congresses have passed over 10,000 pieces of local legislation. Over the past two decades, the country has gone through three major phases of lawmaking. |
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