Shanghai delegation submits 27 motions, 141 suggestions

The Shanghai delegation to the ongoing fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress submitted a total of 27 motions and 141 suggestions, the delegation said on Wednesday after the submission deadline.

Among them, three motions and two suggestions were submitted by the entire delegation of 60 members.

Altogether 25 out of 27 motions were about lawmaking and revision in the areas of economic development, social governance, people's livelihood, traffic and transportation, safe production and judicial justice.

The other two motions were about law enforcement inspection concerning the Foreign Investment Law and the Law on Commercial Banks.

The suggestions mainly covered the fields of economic, social, legal, cultural and ecological construction.

Liu Shijun, spokesperson of the Shanghai delegation and director of the research office of the standing committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, said some deputies submitted motions about revising the Arbitration Law and Enterprise Bankruptcy Law for economic stability, and some deputies' suggestions were about standardizing the employment relationship under new business models and improving flexible employment for college graduates for employment stability.

Some other suggestions were about accelerating the innovation-driven economy. They were about improving basic research, pushing forward development of the country's biomedicine industry and supporting the development of intelligent and connected vehicles, he said.

Liu said all these motions and suggestions were a result of the deputies' extensive and in-depth social research and gathering of wisdom from the public under the concept of the "whole-process people's democracy".