2024年第4期发表的习近平总书记重要文章强调，人民代表大会制度是符合我国国情和实际、体现社会主义国家性质、保证人民当家作主、保障实现中华民族伟大复兴的好制度，是我们党领导人民在人类政治制度史上的伟大创造，是在我国政治发展史乃至世界政治发展史上具有重大意义的全新政治制度。
The article by General Secretary Xi Jinping was published in this year's fourth issue of Qiushi Journal. The article is a compilation of excerpts from Xi's important discourses on relevant topics from December 2012 to June 2023.
According to this article, the system of people’s congresses is an effective system that conforms to the national conditions and current realities of our country, reflects its nature as a socialist country, ensures that the people are the masters of the country, and guarantees that the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be achieved.
Created by the people under the Party's leadership, the system is a great invention in the history of political institutions, and is an entirely new political system of major importance in the history of China's political development and even in that of the world, the article says.
文章指出，党的十八大以来，我们深化对民主政治发展规律的认识，提出全过程人民民主的重大理念。我国全过程人民民主不仅有完整的制度程序，而且有完整的参与实践，实现了过程民主和成果民主、程序民主和实质民主、直接民主和间接民主、人民民主和国家意志相统一，是全链条、全方位、全覆盖的民主，是最广泛、最真实、最管用的社会主义民主。
It notes that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee has deepened understanding of the laws governing the development of democracy, and put forward a key concept of whole-process people’s democracy. Whole-process people's democracy in China not only has a complete set of institutions and procedures, but also has full-fledged civil participation. It embodies the unity between democracy in process and democracy in outcome, between procedural democracy and substantive democracy, between direct democracy and indirect democracy, and between people’s democracy and the will of the state. It is a democracy that covers all aspects of the democratic process and all sectors of society, and is a socialist democracy to the broadest extent, of the truest nature, and to the greatest effect possible, according to the article.
人民代表大会制度是实现我国全过程人民民主的重要制度载体。要加强人民当家作主制度保障。支持和保证人民通过人民代表大会行使国家权力，支持和保证人大及其常委会依法行使立法权、监督权、决定权、任免权，健全人大对行政机关、监察机关、审判机关、检察机关监督制度，加强人大代表工作能力建设，健全吸纳民意、汇集民智工作机制，建设好基层立法联系点。
The article notes that the people's congress system is an important institutional vehicle for realizing whole-process people’s democracy. It also stresses the importance of strengthening the institutions through which the people run the country. We will ensure that the people exercise the state power through people’s congresses, and that people’s congresses and their standing committees lawfully exercise the powers of enacting laws, conducting oversight, making decisions, and appointing and removing officials. We will improve the system under which people’s congresses conduct oversight of administrative, supervisory, adjudicatory, and procuratorial organs, see that deputies to people’s congresses are better able to carry out their work and improve working mechanisms for drawing on public opinion and pooling the wisdom of the people, and ensure that local legislative outreach offices are well-run.
本期配发了学习习近平总书记重要文章的编辑部文章。
Readers will find in this issue an editorial piece, inspired by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s vision.
本期刊发了全国人大常委会机关党组、中共重庆市人大常委会党组、中共江苏省人大常委会党组的文章，分别对稳中求进推动人大工作高质量发展、不断丰富全过程人民民主的基层实践、奋力推动新时代江苏人大工作走在前做示范作出阐释。
The CPC Leadership Group for the Working Bodies of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress elaborates on how to ensure steady high-quality development of the work related to people’s congresses; the CPC Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress introduces its community-level work in developing whole-process people’s democracy; and the CPC Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress works to play a guiding and exemplary role in the work of people’s congresses in the new era.
《求是》杂志评论员文章，宣传阐释学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想主题教育总结会议精神。
The Qiushi commentary publicizes and expounds upon the guiding principles of the meeting reviewing the education campaign on the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
中共山东省委书记、省人大常委会主任林武的文章，介绍山东省学习贯彻习近平文化思想、向文化强省挺进的生动实践。
Lin Wu, Secretary of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial People’s Congress, illustrates Shandong’s efforts to be a province with a thriving culture under the guidance of Xi Jinping thought on culture.
中国农业绿色发展研究会理事长余欣荣的文章，阐释在推进农业绿色发展中深化农村经营体制改革。
Yu Xinrong, Chairman of the China Agricultural Green Development Research Society, explains how to further the reform of rural operation system while promoting agricultural green development.
商务部国际贸易经济合作研究院党委书记、院长顾学明的文章，阐释以高水平对外开放促进高质量发展。
The article by Gu Xueming, Party Committee Secretary and President of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce, offers insights on promoting high-quality development through high-level opening up to the outside world.
海军党委的文章，讲述“时代楷模”南昌舰党委的先进事迹。
The Party Committee of People's Liberation Army Navy tells the stories of the Party Committee of the Nanchang, China's first Type 055 guided-missile destroyer, which was awarded the title of "Role Model of the Times."
中国社会科学院古代史研究所研究员卜宪群的文章，介绍我国历史上的廉洁文化。
Bu Xianqun, a research fellow at the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, introduces the culture of integrity in Chinese history.
同济大学教授、中国科学院院士汪品先的文章，普及深海探索科学知识。
Readers can also learn about deep-sea exploration from the article by Wang Pinxian, a professor at Tongji University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
国家统计局发布了经济社会发展统计图表：2023年全国规模以上文化及相关产业企业相关指标情况。
This issue closes with a diagram released by the National Bureau of Statistics which shows major indicators for cultural and related industrial enterprises above designated size throughout the country in 2023.
翻译：衣小伟
中文责编：郝遥
英文责编：衣小伟
英文审校：张娴 李晓琼
审核：李振通
总监制：于波
