The agenda of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) was adopted Thursday morning by nearly 3,000 NPC deputies at a preparatory meeting. The agenda is as following:

-- hearing and deliberating the government work report by Premier Wen Jiabao

-- examining the Report on the Implementation of the 2009 Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Report on the draft 2010 Plan for National Economic and Social Development; and voting on the 2010 plan

-- examining the Report on the Implementation of the Central and Local Budgets for 2009 and on the Draft Central and Local Budgets for 2010; and voting on the 2010 central budget

-- deliberating a draft amendment to the Electoral Law

-- hearing and deliberating the work report of the NPC Standing Committee made by NPC Standing Committee Chairman Wu Bangguo

-- hearing and deliberating the work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) made by SPC President Wang Shengjun

-- hearing and deliberating the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate made by Procurator-General Cao Jianming

The Third session of the 11th NPC will start Friday and is scheduled to end on March 14.

(Xinhua News Agency March 4, 2010)