BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature is to consider a draft resolution on climate change, and a draft amendment to its renewable energy law, at a bimonthly session scheduled from August 24 to 27.
The draft amendment to the law will undergo its first reading, a meeting of the Council of Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, decided on Monday.
The meeting, presided over by Chairman Wu Bangguo and attended by the secretary-general of the NPC Standing Committee Li Jianguo and various vice chairpersons, set down the four-day session to begin next Monday.
Lawmakers will deliberate a law regulating armed police for the second time, after a consideration in April.
They will also deliberate a draft resolution on the amendment of laws and consider for the third time a draft law relating to administration of government functions.
The legislators will also consider State Council (Cabinet) reports on application of the national plan for economic and social development, methods of development and structural economic adjustments, as well as work to combat climate change.
Lawmakers will also examine a report presented by a NPC Standing Committee law enforcement team on the nationwide inspection of the implementation of animal husbandry laws.
Further, lawmakers will examine qualifications of some NPC deputies and approve personnel changes.