The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, held a plenary meeting on Wednesday to hear and deliberate multiple reports.
The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, started its 38th session Tuesday in Beijing. Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the session's first plenary meeting.
The national legislature plans to add clauses about reducing carbon emissions in the shipping industry to the Marine Environment Protection Law as it mulls over a draft amendment.
People accused of damaging wildlife resources or harming the nation's ecology could face public-interest lawsuits, an official from the top legislature said on Monday.
China plans to introduce more measures for wildlife and ecosystem conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau through national legislation, according to a draft law on environmental conservation on the plateau.