(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-17 19:17

China's legislature is to conduct the first reading of three draft laws on food safety, state assets and social insurance later this month.

The 31st session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee is expected to convene from December 23 to 29, according to a statement issued after a meeting of the chairman and vice-chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee on Monday.

Draft amendments to the laws on frontier health and quarantine, the protection of cultural relics, and individual income tax will also undergo a first reading, the statement said.

During the session, the lawmakers will continue to review the draft anti-drug law, the draft law on labor dispute mediation and arbitration, draft amendments to the laws on road transportation safety, science and technology progress, and prevention and control of water pollution.

They will also go through a report submitted by the chief executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on the outcome of the public consultation on the Green Paper on Constitutional Development and on whether to amend the methods for selecting the chief executive and for forming the Legislative Council in 2012.

The State Council, China's cabinet, will submit to the session three reports on health care system reform, food and drug quality supervision, protection of legal rights of employees and rural area development.