Senior legislators study Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, CPC anniversary speech

BEIJING -- Senior Chinese legislators on Friday held a meeting to study a speech delivered by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, at a gathering marking the CPC's 105th founding anniversary.

The meeting, convened by the leading Party members group of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, also studied Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building.

Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and secretary of its leading Party members group, presided over and addressed the meeting.

The meeting noted that Xi's important speech is visionary and rich in substance, serving as a political declaration and action plan guiding the whole Party and the Chinese people in advancing the new journey and making greater contributions in the new era.

It also stressed the need to uphold, improve, and implement the system of people's congresses to good effect, and to promote high-quality development in the work of people's congresses, while encouraging the legislators to draw on their duties and responsibilities to contribute wisdom and strength to Chinese modernization.

Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building provides the fundamental guidance for advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era, the meeting said, calling for continued efforts to study and implement the thought, and to consciously apply it in planning and advancing Party building in people's congresses.