BEIJING: Chinese lawmakers on Monday started deliberating a draft law revision to improve the country's emergency response system, which has encountered some new challenges in recent years given the Covid-19 epidemic and serious floods earlier this year.

The draft revision to the Emergency Response Law was submitted to the ongoing session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress — China's top legislature — for first reading, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

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