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China Adopts Law on Administrative Licensing

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The Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, adopted a law essential to the country's government reforms while concluding its five-day Fourth Meeting Wednesday.

According to a Presidential Decree issued Wednesday by President Hu Jintao, the law on administrative licensing, with 83 articles in eight chapters, will come into effect as of July 1, 2004.

"This is a very important law," said Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, after an overwhelming majority of the legislators voted in favor of passing the law. The draft law had been deliberated by the NPC Standing Committee for four times at its bimonthly meetings.

Once put into force, the law is expected to play a vital role in introducing a "just and transparent, clean and efficient administrative system with standardized practice and good coordination" in China, said Wu.

The law will also provide a powerful legal guarantee for China's opening-up to the outside world and for the establishment and improvement of the country's socialist market economic system, he added.

At Wednesday's closing session, the NPC Standing Committee also approved three bilateral and international treaties or conventions, which comprised a treaty on mutual judicial assistance in criminal cases between China and South Africa, an agreement of cooperation in fight against terrorism, splittism and extremism between China and Kirgizstan, and the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crimes.

The closing session was presided over by Wu Bangguo, who also presented appointment certificates to the members of the new Basic Law Committee of the Hong Kong SAR (special administrative region)under the NPC Standing Committee.

With a five-year term, the first Basic Law Committee of the Hong Kong SAR was formed in Beijing on July 1, 1997. It operates directly under the NPC Standing Committee and is consisted of 12 members, half of them from Hong Kong. The main responsibility of the committee is to advice the top legislature on necessary explanations and revisions of the Hong Kong SAR Basic Law, or the region's mini-constitution.

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