BEIJING -- The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) held a chairpersons' meeting Saturday afternoon before the closing of the top legislature's bimonthly session.

Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the meeting.

It was decided at the meeting draft laws and resolutions would be submitted for voting at the closing meeting of the session, including a draft law on encryption, and draft resolutions on clarifying the National Supervisory Commission's power to formulate supervisory regulations, adjusting the implementation of laws to further cut red tape in pilot free trade zones, as well as authorizing the jurisdiction of Macao's port zone at Hengqin port and extended areas to the Macao Special Administrative Region.