China is scheduled to elect new State leaders, including the top legislator, the president and vice-president of China, the premier and vice premier, and ministers, at the First Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), which begins on March 5, 2008.

The session, which will last for about two weeks, will elect the new chairman of the Central Military Commission and heads of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, according to a resolution passed by the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), at its 31st meeting which concluded here on Saturday.

The agenda also includes the reading and approval of a government report; checking and approval of reports on the implementation of the annual plan on national economic and social development in 2007 and the draft plan on national economic and social development in 2008, and checking and approval of reports on the implementation of the central and local budgets of 2007 and the draft central and local budgets of 2008.

The session will also hear and approve work reports by the NPC Standing Committee, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and a State Council plan on institutional reform.

Editor: Donald