The Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC),
China's top legislature, held a meeting yesterday afternoon to deliberate a
number of drafts of laws or amendments of laws, as well as three international
conventions and a bilateral treaty.
Wu Bangguo, NPC Standing Committee chairman and a member of the Standing
Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political
Bureau, presided over the meeting.
The legislators deliberated the drafts of the Law on the State-owned Assets
of Companies, the Amendment to the Law on Fire Control and the Law on Food
Safety, the Amendment to the Law on State Compensation, the Amendment to the Law
on Earthquake Relief and Disaster Reduction and the Amendment to the Law on
Post.
Furthermore, they also deliberated the Convention on the Physical Protection
of Nuclear Material, the Convention on International Interests in Mobile
Equipment, the Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment and an
extradition treaty with Portugal.
The meeting also heard a report on the performance of some NPC deputies and
deliberated some removals and appointments.
