BEIJING, Apr 3 : The new president of China's National People's Congress (NI>C). Qiao Shi. Thursday urged members to adopt a series of laws to guide the market economy and prevent a descent into chaos, reports AFP.

"The history of economic development in modern states has proved that without sound legal standards or guarantees, the various social and economic activities will have no guidelines, thus inevitably leading to chaos, "Qiao was quoted by Xinhua news agency as'saylng.

The Congress should make it a priority to lay down economic laws, he told the members.

Th«,‘ president, elected Saturday, made the statements at the first meeting of the new standing commit tec of the Congress, whose annual session ended Wednesday.

The remarks by Qiao, former hea^i of China's secret police echoed Chinese leaders" worries that rapid economic development was creating conditions of anarchy in the country.

The government and the communist parly have been having more and more difficulty in controlling the explosion of growth in many regions. most significantly in the dynamic southern and eastern coastal provinces.