-- investigate compliance with the Law on Food Safety, the Labor Contract Law, the Law Guaranteeing the Rights and Interests of Senior Citizens and other laws;

-- urge relevant parties to effectively solve problems of the utmost concern to ordinary people such as adequate housing, schooling for children, employment, and the protection of workers' rights and interests;

-- deliberate reports of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on strengthening primary-level work in order to solve prominent problems restricting improvement of judicial competence at the primary level, strengthen their management and competence, and promote judicial justice;

-- listen to and deliberate the State Council' s report on the implementation of the fifth five-year plan for spreading general knowledge of the law among the people, adopt a resolution for implementing the sixth five-year plan for this purpose.

In his report, Wu also stressed the need to tackle the issue of income distribution this year, as "it is a problem of common concern to the people and NPC deputies."

The top legislator promised to intensify investigations and studies on raising the proportion of national income that goes to individuals and raising the proportion of workers' wages in the primary distribution, in an effort to appropriately adjust income distribution.

He said the NPC Standing Committee would also pay more attention to investigations and studies on standardizing income distribution, strengthening the role of taxation in adjusting income, and reversing the widening income disparity.

Last year, the NPC focused its inquiries on the central government's final accounts, national food security, and deepening the reform of the pharmaceutical and healthcare systems,

These inquiries, which were reported or broadcast live on television and the Internet, attracted widespread attention and won a positive response from the general public.

"Inquiries on special topics have helped the State Council and its departments to improve their work, and also enriched the way the NPC does its oversight work," Wu said.