Members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) held a conference Sunday, to discuss the draft Law on Supervision, a law to secure legislatures of all levels to exercise their rights of supervision over administrative and judicial organs.
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the meeting.
At the discussion, the third since 2002, the senior legislators reiterated the importance of legislature's supervisory rights, saying a unified law is in need to regularize the constitutional rights of lawmakers, so as to ensure administrative departments to work in accordance with law and judicial departments to work in a just way.
The third draft, which has been revised after consulting local legislators, Party and government officials and experts and scholars, is quite mature and should be officially issued, after further modifications, as early as possible, they held.
(Xinhua News Agency June 26, 2006)
