China's top legislature stresses legislation support for high-quality development

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature underscored efforts to provide the country's high-quality development with the backing and support of high-quality legislation in 2019 in an annual work report.

The report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), which was available to the news media Friday afternoon, is to be delivered by the committee's chairman Li Zhanshu at the second session of the 13th NPC.

The top legislature plans to move forward with formulating and revising urgently needed laws for deepening market-based reforms and expanding high-standard opening up, it says.

It also needs to expedite legislation in the domains of public wellbeing, national security, intellectual property rights protection, social governance, and ecological advancement, enforce the principle of law-based taxation, and improve relevant laws on state institutions, according to the report.