China to revise emergency response system

By Global Times

Dec 26, 2021 12:23 am

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.

LINGERING THREAT A medical worker collects a swab sample from a resident at a Covid-19 testing site in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. Xi’an launched a new round of all-inclusive nucleic acid testing on Tuesday since new locally transmitted confirmed Covid-19 cases were reported. XINHUA PHOTO

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