(Yicai Global) Dec. 28 -- The 13th National People's Congress will hold its fourth annual session in Beijing on March 5, 2021, according to a decision by the NPC Standing Committee on Dec. 26 adopted by a vote at the end of its session that ran from Dec. 22 to Dec. 26.

The agenda put forward for the yearly meeting includes reviewing the government work report and examining the draft 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035.

The session is expected to also scrutinize the report on the implementation of the annual plan on national economic and social development for 2020, and the draft plan on national economic and social development for 2021, and peruse the report on the implementation of the central and local budgets for 2020 and the draft central and local budgets for 2021.

The legislators are also expected to evaluate draft amendments to the organic law of the NPC and the NPC's procedural rules, according to the decision, as well as the work reports of the NPC Standing Committee, the Supreme People's Court and the country’s top prosecutorial organ the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Editor: Ben Armour