国内英语新闻:China's top legislature schedules standing committee session

BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) will convene its 26th session from Feb. 27 to 28 in Beijing.

The decision was made on Tuesday at a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, which was presided over by Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.

An important task of the standing committee session is to make preparations for the upcoming fourth annual session of the 13th NPC, which will open on March 5.

According to the proposed agenda, lawmakers will review at the two-day standing committee session the work report of the NPC Standing Committee, which will be submitted to the annual assembly of the legislature in March.

Lawmakers will review the draft agenda for the NPC annual session, the draft name list of the session's presidium and secretary-general and the draft name list of members invited to sit in on the annual session as non-voting participants.

They will also deliberate a draft law on stamp duty, a law-enforcement report of the State Council, a Supreme People's Court report on its pilot reform project, a deputy qualification report and personnel-related bills.