China's Top Legislature to Discuss Hong Kong's Jurisdiction Over Huanggang Port Area
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China's top legislative body, the NPC Standing Committee, will discuss a bill next week to grant Hong Kong jurisdiction over part of the redeveloped Huanggang Port in Shenzhen, set to open 24-hour operations in July.
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China's top legislative body will discuss a bill to authorize Hong Kong's jurisdiction over part of the redeveloped Huanggang Port in Shenzhen, which will adopt a 'co-location' arrangement when it opens next month.
China’s top legislative body will discuss a bill next week to authorise Hong Kong’s jurisdiction over part of the redeveloped Huanggang Port in Shenzhen that will adopt a “co-location” arrangement when it opens next month.
The meetings to be hosted by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) between June 23 and 26 in Beijing were announced on Tuesday after its chairman, Zhao Leji, chaired a discussion at the Great Hall of the People in the capital on the same day.
According to state news agency Xinhua, the NPC’s coming session will review a bill regarding a decision to “authorise jurisdiction over the Hong Kong Port Area at Huanggang Port and its related extended areas”.
The proposed agenda will also include reviewing a progress report on a pilot scheme that allows Hong Kong and Macau legal practitioners to obtain mainland qualifications and practice law in the nine mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area.
The meeting came ahead of the scheduled opening of the redeveloped Huanggang Port Building next month.
The new complex, located in Shenzhen, will replace the existing Lok Ma Chau/Huanggang crossing as the only 24-hour link between Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Open Questions
- What are the specific details of the co-location arrangement?
- What are the implications for legal practitioners from Hong Kong and Macau?
