On March 11, 2018, the 1st Session of the 13th National People’s Congress adopted the following Amendment to the PRC Constitution with 2,958 votes in favor, two against, and three abstentions. Sixteen delegates were absent and one vote cast was declared invalid.
We published the original annotated English translation of this Constitutional Amendment on the day it was adopted. Given the public’s unabated interest in this important document ever since, on February 7, 2019, we comprehensively updated our annotations of the Amendment—in particular those of the changes to the Preamble. We also updated the translation in accordance with our recent translation of the entire Constitution as amended.
The original text of the Amendment and our translation are placed in block quotes below, followed by our annotation of each article. Parts of the text are formatted to enhance readability.
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