In addition, Wu said the NPC Standing Committee will conduct law enforcement inspections on the Law on Trade Unions, the Food Safety Law and the Livestock Breeding Law to maintain and improve people's living standards and promote social harmony and stability.

Wu said the power of oversight is an important power granted to the people's congresses by the Constitution and laws.

He also said that the people's congresses oversee the work of the governments, courts and procuratorates, but this does not mean they are confrontational or create difficulties for the parties they oversee.

"On the contrary, the people's congresses and the organizations they oversee are working toward the same goals," he said.

When the people's congresses carry out their oversight work effectively in accordance with the law, it helps improve the work of the governments, courts and procuratorates, he said.

(Xinhua News Agency March 9, 2009)