国内英语资讯:Chinas legislature wraps up bimonthly session_时事

国内英语资讯:Chinas legislature wraps up bimonthly session

The song is to be included in textbooks for primary and secondary school students, and people are encouraged to sing the national anthem on appropriate occasions to express patriotism.

AMENDMENTS

A revised law of promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was adopted after a third reading to better protect the interests of SMEs.

The revised law, which will take effect on Jan. 1, 2018, has strengthened protection of the property and other rights of SMEs and increased support in areas such as financing, taxation and employment.

The committee also passed amendments to eight laws, including the Judges Law, which will take effect on Jan. 1, 2018.

More legal professionals, including administrative review and administrative adjudication workers, legal advisors at government agencies, will be required to sit a new national exam, in addition to judges, prosecutors, lawyers and notaries, according to the amendments.

REVIEWING DRAFTS, REPORTS

At the session, lawmakers also reviewed a draft law on tobacco leaf tax, which stipulates a tax of 20 percent to be levied on tobacco leaf buyers, unchanged from the previous regulation.

They also deliberated draft amendments to the Unfair Competition Law, the Standardization Law, the Law on the Organization of People's Courts, and the Law on the Organization of People's Procuratorates.

Reports on economic and social development, implementation of the budget, poverty relief, the work of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) courts, and implementation of the Copyright Law were also reviewed by the committee during the week-long session.