Fellow Deputies,

According to the Decision on Revising the Electoral Law of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses, passed at the Third Session of the Eleventh NPC, deputies to people's congresses are to be elected based on the same population ratio in both urban and rural areas. This more fully embodies the principle that all people, regions and ethnic groups are equal. This year, elections of new county and township people's congresses will take place across the country. These will be the first elections carried out in accordance with the revised Electoral Law, and there will be new changes to deputy quotas, the organization of election work and other areas. All of this imposes new requirements for doing election work well. Based on careful investigations and studies, the Standing Committee put forward guidelines on doing a good job in the election of new county and township people's congresses across the country and on deputy quotas. We will resolutely implement the unified arrangements of the central leadership; intimately integrate the leadership of the Party, the position of the people as masters of the country, and the rule of law; give full play to democracy; act strictly in accordance with the law; and ensure that the election of the new county and township people's congresses proceeds smoothly and that outstanding people who strictly obey the Constitution and laws, forge close ties with the masses, strive to serve the people, and are trusted by the masses are selected to be members of agencies of state power. In this way, we will provide a firm organizational guarantee for upholding and improving the system of people's congresses and developing socialist democratic politics.

Fellow Deputies,

The mission that history has assigned to us is glorious yet arduous, and the people have high and ardent expectations of us. Let us rally closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as General Secretary, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, fully implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, work energetically, press ahead resolutely, work diligently, greet the 90th anniversary of the founding of the CPC with outstanding achievements, and strive to get economic and social development off to a good start in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period and achieve new successes in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.