-- "National security is like the air. Without it, no one can survive," said Witman Hung, a national lawmaker from Hong Kong.

-- For the next step, the National People's Congress will entrust its standing committee to make national security laws to be promulgated and enforced in Hong Kong.

-- "One country, two systems" will not be changed.

By Xinhua writers Xu Lingui, Zhang Bowen, Fang Dong, Li Zhihui

BEIJING, May 28  -- China is set to make Hong Kong national security laws as a related decision was adopted at the national legislature on Thursday.

The decision will also allow the central government's national security organs to set up agencies in Hong Kong when needed.

Deputies to the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) voted overwhelmingly to approve the decision at the closing meeting of the NPC annual session.

Rounds of applause erupted in the Great Hall of the People when the decision was passed.