BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Zhang Dejiang urged adherence and improvement to the people's congress system, China's basic political system, when delivering a report at the Party School of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Monday.

Zhang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), said the system of people's congresses is a choice of the history and the people, and must be cherished.

Ever since the CPC was founded, it has been striving to realize the goal of people being masters of the country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. After practical and theoretical explorations, it finally chose the people's congress as the fundamental political system of China, Zhang told about 2,200 attendees to the lecture.

Source: Xinhua, at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-05/23/c_135381988.htm