Legal system gets refined

BEIJING - The country's top legislature is removing and modifying "a great number of" administrative and local regulations that run contradictory to the Constitution and national laws, a senior legislator said on Thursday.

"We're cleaning up a great deal of such regulations ... that implicate local interests in every provincial-level administrative region," said Xin Chunying, deputy director of the legislative affairs commission of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.

She said the exact number of such regulations will be released when the job is done.