National security legislation safeguards China's core interests: report

China's national legislature Sunday highlighted national security legislation as one of the major legislative achievements over the past five years.

The third plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress opens at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11, 2018. [Photo: Xinhua]

A series of laws were enacted in the period, including laws on national security, counter-espionage, anti-terrorism, administration of activities of overseas nongovernmental organizations in the Chinese mainland, cybersecurity, national intelligence, and nuclear safety, according to a work report of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), delivered by Zhang Dejiang, the committee's chairman, at a plenary meeting of the 13th NPC session.

"These laws provide a strong legal guarantee for safeguarding China's national security, and other core and key interests," Zhang said.