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China's national legislature will open its annual session on Saturday morning in Beijing and it is scheduled to conclude on March 11, Zhang Yesui, spokesperson for the session, confirmed at a press conference on Friday.
The agenda for the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) was adopted Friday morning with 10 items on the list.
Lawmakers will review documents including the government work report and deliberate the draft amendment to the Organic Law of the Local People's Congresses and Local People's Governments, Zhang said.
They will also deliberate the draft decision on the number of deputies to the 14th NPC and their election, and two draft methods for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the Macao SAR to elect their deputies to the 14th NPC, Zhang said.