Top legislator Wu Bangguo yesterday promised the national legislature will do its best to reflect the common will of all Chinese people in making the anti-secession law.
Lawmakers will follow the Constitution and the central authorities' policy on Taiwan, said Wu, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, at the closing meeting of the 13th session of the 10th NPC Standing Committee.
It was also decided at the meeting that the draft anti-secession law be submitted for deliberation at the third full session of the 10th NPC slated for next March.
The NPC is the nation's top legislature.
Wu said the reunification of the motherland is one of the three major historic tasks of the central government and the Communist Party of China. "We have made unremitting efforts for developing relations across the Taiwan Straits and promoting the peaceful reunification of the motherland for a long time," he said.
However, in recent years, the Taiwan authorities have accelerated separatist activities, especially through so-called constitutional reform. These secessionist activities have become the largest obstacle to the development of cross-Straits relations and peaceful reunification, he said.
Wu said it is "absolutely necessary" to formulate the anti-secession law to fight and curb separatists in Taiwan. He said the law would promote the peaceful reunification of the motherland, maintain peace and stability across the Straits, safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as ensure the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation.
In the last few years, people from all walks of life on the Chinese mainland and many overseas Chinese have repeatedly expressed an increasingly strong demand to fight Taiwan secessionist forces and realize the peaceful reunification of the motherland by legal means. Several lawmakers and senior advisers have also brought bills, proposals and motions before the NPC, stating that formulating such a law conforms to the will of the people.
"Now the conditions for making the law are ripe,"  Wu said.
The Constitution stipulates that Taiwan is an indispensable part of China and realizing the reunification of the motherland is the sacred duty of all Chinese people, including the people in Taiwan.