China's top legislature deliberates report on building unified national market

The ongoing 23rd session of China's 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held a joint group meeting on Wednesday in Beijing to deliberate a report of the State Council on building a unified national market.

Zhao Leji, chairman of the 14th NPC Standing Committee, attended the meeting. Vice Chairman Xiao Jie presided over the meeting.

During the meeting, 10 lawmakers raised questions focusing on key aspects of building the unified national market, including overall objectives and progress, measures to improve the fair competition review system, and current challenges.

Their questions also included the following measures, cross-regional coordination of administrative law enforcement standards, regulation of local fiscal subsidy policies, regulation of local government investment promotion practices, and improvement of the unified national power market system.

Additional questions covered strengthening regulation of the platform economy and enhancing transportation service guarantees.

Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing and officials from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Commerce, and the State Administration for Market Regulation attended the meeting. They listened to lawmakers' suggestions and responded to their questions.

The 23rd session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee convened on Tuesday in Beijing and will run through Friday.

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Mariano Grossi signaled Wednesday that his inspectors would visit Iranian nuclear enrichment sites, according to media reports.

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