China's top legislature starts standing committee session

The Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, started its ninth session Tuesday to review multiple draft laws and law revisions.

The session's agenda includes reviewing a draft academic degrees law, a draft tariff law, a draft revision to the Law on National Defense Education, a draft amendment to the Accounting Law, a draft amendment to the Statistics Law, a draft energy law, a draft atomic energy law, and a draft revision to the Anti-Money Laundering Law, among other bills.