BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A senior official has urged further innovation in the theory and practice of China's people's congress system.

Wang Chen, vice chairman and secretary-general of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, called for strengthening and improving the supervisory role of the people's congress, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, at an two-day annual meeting of China Institute of Theory on the People's Congress System (CITPCS) concluded Thursday.

He also asked the attendees of the CITPCS annual meeting to advance the research on the theory on the people's congress system, so as to make new contributions to following, implementing and developing the people's congress system.

The research should be forward-looking and solution-seeking, he said.