{"id":6533,"date":"2023-08-21T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2023-08-21T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T12:39:21","slug":"chinas-top-legislature-schedules-standing-committee-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/chinas-top-legislature-schedules-standing-committee-session\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s top legislature schedules standing committee session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Standing Committee of the 14th National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC) will convene its fifth session from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1 in Beijing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made on Monday at a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, which was presided over by Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the proposed agenda, lawmakers at the session will review draft revisions to the administrative reconsideration law and the company law, a draft law on foreign countries&#8217; state immunity and a draft law on value-added tax, as well as a draft amendment to the civil procedure law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NPC Standing Committee session is also expected to review bills on draft laws on preschool education and on academic degrees respectively, a bill on a draft revision to the law on public security administrative penalties, and a bill on a draft decision regarding extending the authorization for the State Council to carry out a pilot program that enables law practitioners from Hong Kong and Macao to practice law in certain cities on the mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislators will also review a bill on the ratification of an extradition treaty with Ecuador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other documents to be submitted at the session include reports on the implementation of the national economic and social development plan and on the implementation of this year&#8217;s budget.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Standing Committee of the 14th National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC) will convene its fifth session from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1 in Beijing. The decision was made on Monday at a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, which was presided over by Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,2,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}