OVERSIGHT WORK IN 2011

-- This year, the NPC Standing Committee's oversight work will firmly focus on the implementation of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan expected to be approved at this session, carry out oversight in a variety of ways in accordance with the provisions of the Oversight Law, concentrate oversight more on matters concerning the country's overall interests and the people's well-being, and obtain more tangible results from the NPC's oversight work.

-- The NPC Standing Committee will listen to and deliberate the State Council's reports on its work concerning accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development, environmental protection, reform of the tenure of collective forests and developing the tourism industry.

-- The NPC Standing Committee will listen to and deliberate the State Council's reports on building low-income housing, implementing the National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for Education Reform and Development, and fire prevention.

-- The NPC Standing Committee will address the issue of appropriately adjusting income distribution with its focus on intensifying investigations and studies on raising the proportion of national income that goes to individuals, raising the proportion of workers' wages in the primary distribution, standardizing income distribution, strengthening the role of taxation in adjusting incomes, and reversing the widening income disparity.