they shall submit such local regulations to the standing committees of the people’s congresses of the respective provinces and autonomous regions for approval before implementation and for submission to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and the State Council for the record.

报省、自治区的人民代表大会常务委员会批准后施行，并由省、自治区的人民代表大会常务委员会报全国人民代表大会常务委员会和国务院备案。

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Article 44 The standing committee of a local people’s congress at or above the county level shall exercise the following functions and powers:

第四十四条　县级以上的地方各级人民代表大会常务委员会行使下列职权:

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(1)to ensure the observance and execution, in its administrative area, of the Constitution, the law, administrative rules and regulations and the resolutions of the people’s congresses and their standing committees at higher levels;

(一)在本行政区域内，保证宪法、法律、行政法规和上级人民代表大会及其常务委员会决议的遵守和执行;

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(2)to direct or conduct the election of deputies to its people’s congress;

(二)领导或者主持本级人民代表大会代表的选举;

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(3)to convene sessions of its people’s congress;

(三)召集本级人民代表大会会议;

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(4)to discuss and decide on major issues in political, economic, cultural, educational, scientific, cultural, public health, protection of the environment and natural resources and civil and nationality affairs in its administrative area;

(四)讨论、决定本行政区域内的政治、经济、教育、科学、文化、卫生、环境和资源保护、民政、民族等工作的重大事项;

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(5)to decide, upon the recommendation of the people’s government at the corresponding level, to make partial alterations in the plans for economic and social development and the budgets of its respective administrative area;

(五)根据本级人民政府的建议，决定对本行政区域内的国民经济和社会发展计划、预算的部分变更;

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(6)to supervise the work of the people’s government, people’s court and people’s procuratorate at the corresponding level, to maintain contact with the deputies of its people’s congress and to receive and handle accusations and complaints from the people against the above-mentioned organs and state functionaries;

(六)监督本级人民政府、人民法院和人民检察院的工作，联系本级人民代表大会代表，受理人民群众对上述机关和国家工作人员的申诉和意见;

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(7)to annul inappropriate resolutions of the people’s congress and its standing committee at the next lower level;

(七)撤销下一级人民代表大会及其常务委员会的不适当的决议;

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(8)to annul inappropriate decisions and orders of the people’s government at the corresponding level;

(八)撤销本级人民政府的不适当的决定和命令;

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(9)to decide, when its people’s congress is not in session, on the appointment or removal of individual deputy governors, vice-chairmen of the autonomous region, deputy mayors, deputy prefects and deputy heads of the county or district;

(九)在本级人民代表大会闭会期间，决定副省长、自治区副主席、副市长、副州长、副县长、副区长的个别任免;

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when, for any reason, the governor, chairman of the autonomous region, mayor, prefect, or head of the county or district, president of the people’s court or chief procurator of the people’s procuratorate is unable to perform his duties,

在省长、自治区主席、市长、州长、县长、区长和人民法院院长、人民检察院检察长因故不能担任职务的时候，

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to choose a person from among the deputy heads of the people’s government, people’s court or people’s procuratorate at the corresponding level to act on his behalf;

从本级人民政府、人民法院、人民检察院副职领导人员中决定代理的人选;

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the choice of an acting chief procurator must be reported to the people’s procuratorate and the standing committee of the people’s congress at the next higher level for the record;

决定代理检察长，须报上一级人民检察院和人民代表大会常务委员会备案;

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(10)to decide, upon nomination by the governor, chairman of the autonomous region, mayor, prefect, or head of the county or district, on the appointment or removal of the secretary-general and the department and bureau directors, commission chairmen and section chiefs of the people’s government at the corresponding level and to report such decisions to the people’s government at the next higher level for the record;

(十)根据省长、自治区主席、市长、州长、县长、区长的提名，决定本级人民政府秘书长、厅长、局长、委员会主任、科长的任免，报上一级人民政府备案;

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(11)to appoint or remove, in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Law of the People’s Courts and the Organic Law of the People’s Procuratorates, vice-presidents, chief judges and associate chief judges of divisions,

(十一)按照人民法院组织法和人民检察院组织法的规定，任免人民法院副院长、庭长、副庭长、

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members of the judicial committees and judges of the people’s courts, to appoint or remove deputy chief procurators, members of the procuratorial committees and procurators of the people’s procuratorates,

审判委员会委员、审判员，任免人民检察院副检察长、检察委员会委员、检察员，

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and to approve the appointment or removal of the chief procurators of the people’s procuratorates at the next lower level; the standing committee of the people’s congress of a province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government shall,

批准任免下一级人民检察院检察长;省、自治区、直辖市的人民代表大会常务委员会

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upon nomination by its council of chairmen, decide on the appointment or removal of presidents of intermediate people’s courts established in prefectures of provinces and autonomous regions or in municipalities directly under the Central Government and,

根据主任会议的提名，决定在省、自治区内按地区设立的和在直辖市内设立的中级人民法院院长的任免，

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upon nomination by the chief procurator of the people’s procuratorate of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government, decide on the appointment or removal of chief procurators of people’s branch procuratorates.

根据省、自治区、直辖市的人民检察院检察长的提名，决定人民检察院分院检察长的任免;

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