China's top legislature schedules bimonthly session

The top legislature will convene its bimonthly session from Dec. 21 to 27 in Beijing, its chairman and vice chairpersons decided at a meeting on Monday.

Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, presided over the meeting.

The 18th bimonthly session of this NPC Standing Committee will see the continued review of draft laws covering counterterrorism, domestic violence, a national system of honors, education and charity.

Lawmakers will deliberate bills to revise laws on wildlife protection, traditional Chinese medicine and family planning.

Legislators will also review bills and reports concerning the fourth annual session by the 12th NPC, medical system reform, local government debt, and the implementation of the law on regional autonomy of ethnic minorities and the law on protecting senior people.

During the session, lawmakers will decide whether to ratify a treaty of extradition of sentenced people between China and Iran, and a friendly cooperation treaty between China and Belarus proposed by the State Council. Endi