Source: Xinhua News Agency
Original Title: "The Twelfth Session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress Standing Committee Held in Peking, Reviewing the Draft of Preschool Education Law, Draft Amendments to the Cultural Relics Protection Law, and more, Chaired by ****"

The 12th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee held its first plenary session on the morning of November 4th at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, chaired by Chairman ****.

158 members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting, meeting the statutory number of attendees.

The meeting heard a report on the deliberation results of the draft Pre-school Education Law by Vice Chairman Xu Hui of the National People's Congress Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. The third draft of the draft law clearly establishes a comprehensive pre-school education guarantee mechanism in the country, reduces the cost of family care and education; further strengthens related safety supervision work; adds provisions encouraging the development and promotion of works, products, and research results that meet the needs of pre-school children; regulates activities involving the processing of personal information of pre-school children, protecting their reputation, privacy, and other legitimate rights and interests; and improves regulations related to the management of kindergarten staff.

The meeting heard a report on the deliberation results of the draft amendment to the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics by Director Xinchunying of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. The third draft of the draft law strengthens the system for identifying cultural relics, enhances the level of legal protection of cultural relics protection work; strengthens the obligations of cultural relic collection units; adds provisions that the state encourages citizens and organizations to legally collect, enhances guidance, management, and services for private collection activities; further clarifies the specific scope of prohibiting the exit of cultural relics.

The meeting heard a report on the deliberation results of the draft revision of the Mineral Resources Law by Deputy Director Wang Hongxiang of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. The third draft enriches the content of basic geological survey work; adds content to promote international cooperation in the field of mineral resources; further improves the mining land system; strengthens the management of tailings ponds formed by mining mineral resources to prevent safety risks; further strengthens ecological restoration work in mining areas.

The meeting heard a report on the deliberation results of the Energy Law draft by Vice Chairman Zhou Guangquan of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. The third draft of the draft law adds provisions to promote the construction of a new standard system in the energy field, actively promote market-based energy saving services such as contract energy management; stipulates that energy users should actively participate in 'energy demand response', adds provisions to guide energy users to promote energy conservation and improve energy utilization efficiency.

The meeting heard a report on the deliberation results of the draft revision of the Anti-Money Laundering Law by Deputy Director Huang Ming of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. The third draft further clarifies the conditions under which financial institutions take anti-money laundering risk management measures; adds provisions that the sharing of anti-money laundering information should comply with relevant information protection laws and regulations; adds provisions that if anti-money laundering risk management measures involve basic and necessary financial services for customers, financial institutions should handle them in a timely manner.

The meeting heard a report on the deliberation results of the draft amendment to the Supervision Law by Deputy Director Shen Chunyao of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee. The second draft of the draft law improves the relevant regulations of the annual supervision work plan; adds the content of annually hearing and deliberating reports on environmental conditions and the completion of environmental protection goals, government debt management situation reports, and more; specifies good practices in law enforcement inspections in the law; adds relevant regulations on the filing review linkage mechanism.

To thoroughly implement General Secretary ****'s important ideas on adhering to and improving the system of people's congresses, fully play the role of NPC deputies, improve the system of the people being the masters of the country, and based on a careful summary of the practical experience of NPC deputies in the new era, the Chairman's Meeting of the NPC Standing Committee put forward a motion to submit the draft amendment to the Representative Law for deliberation. At the request of the Chairman's Meeting, Shen Chunyao, Director of the Legal Work Committee of the Standing Committee, gave an explanation.

In order to strengthen the construction of foreign-related rule of law, improve and perfect an arbitration legal system with Chinese characteristics that is in line with international common practices, create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, based on the rule of law, and internationalized, the State Council proposed a motion to submit the draft revision of the Arbitration Law for deliberation. At the request of the State Council, Minister of Justice He Rong provided an explanation.

To promote the high-quality development of shipping and trade, and support the construction of a maritime power, the State Council proposed a motion to submit the draft revision of the Maritime Code for deliberation. At the request of the State Council, He Rong provided an explanation.

To comprehensively promote the popularization of science and technology, advance the realization of high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, the State Council proposed a motion to submit the draft revision of the Law on the Popularization of Science and Technology for deliberation. At the request of the State Council, Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun provided an explanation.

In order to further transform government functions, optimize the business environment, stimulate market vitality, and better summarize the pilot experience, the State Council proposed a motion to submit the decision to extend the authorization for the temporary adjustment of the provisions applicable to the measurement law in innovative pilot cities concerning the business environment for deliberation. At the request of the State Council, Luo Wen, Director of the State Administration of Market Supervision, provided an explanation.

The meeting deliberated on the State Council's proposal to deliberate on increasing the limit on local government debt to replace outstanding implicit debts. At the request of the State Council, Minister of Finance Lan Foan provided an explanation. Vice Chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress, Xu Hongcai, presented the review results report on the proposal.

The meeting deliberated on the State Council's proposal to deliberate on approving the Amendment to the Protocol on Strategic Actions under the London Protocol 1996 of the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter. At the request of the State Council, Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu provided an explanation.

The meeting heard reports from the Chairmen of the NPC Supervision and Judicial Committee Yang Xiaochao, the Environment and Resources Protection Committee Lu XinShe, the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Du JiaHao, and the Social Development Committee Yang Zhenwu, respectively, on the results of the deliberation of the proposals put forward by the representatives at the second session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress.

The meeting listened to the report on the qualifications of individual representatives by Yang Xiaochao, the director of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

The meeting also deliberated on relevant appointments and removals.

Vice Chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Hongzhong, Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Zheng Jianbang, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, He Wei, Wu Weihua, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Luosang Jiangcun, Xuekelaiti Zakel, and Secretary-General Liu Qi attended the meeting.

Vice Premier of the State Council Liu Guozhong, President of the Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Ying Yong, responsible comrades of the National Supervisory Commission, members of various special committees of the National People's Congress, responsible comrades of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, some main responsible comrades of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of sub-provincial cities, some National People's Congress deputies, relevant department heads, and other attendees were present at the meeting.