| The constitutional status of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), which was formed gradually through constitutional changes, has three dimensions. As the standing body of the highest organ of state power, the NPCSC cannot be identified with the National People’s Congress (NPC) in terms of organization or competence, but the two organs are correlated functionally. As organs exercising state legislative powers, the NPCSC and the NPC are not homogeneous substitutes for each other, but have a division of labor between them. If the legislation of the NPCSC involves fundamental value decisions, the NPCSC should follow the judgment of the NPC. If not, it may give full play to its autonomous function of democratic representation and deliberation. As an organ of constitutional supervision and interpretation, the NPCSC can carry out not only political-control supervision based on democratic centralism, but also normative-control supervision through constitutional interpretation. The three dimensions of the constitutional status of the NPCSC are jointly determined by the needs of state governance, the structure of the political regime, and the tensions between different functions and powers, and should be used as a framework to clarify the external and internal boundaries of the competences of the NPCSC. |
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