The session will discuss the draft agenda of the first session of the 10th NPC, to be held in March, according to a meeting of the chairman and vice-chairpersons of the Ninth NPC Standing Committee Friday.

Li Peng, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over Friday's meeting.

Participants at the upcoming session will deliberate a report on examining the qualifications of deputies to the 10th NPC, and the names of the deputies will be announced.

The Standing Committee session will deliberate the draft agenda of the first 10th NPC session, the draft list put forward for the presidium and secretary-general of the session, and deliberate the draft report on the work of the Ninth NPC Standing Committee.

It will also decide the name list of people to attend the first session of the 10th NPC as non-voting delegates.

A draft ordinance on customs bearings, the sole draft law to be reviewed during the NPC Standing Committee session, will go through a second round of deliberation.

(Xinhua News Agency February 22, 2003)