China’s NPC to discuss Hong Kong’s shared control over upgraded Shenzhen port

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.