Month: April 2024

NPC Calendar: May 2024

Here is our recap of NPC-related events in May 2024 at our monthly newsletter.

The revised Law on Guarding State Secrets [保守国家秘密法] (adopted on Feb. 27, 2024) takes effect on May 1.

The NPC Standing Committee (NPCSC) is seeking public comment on the following bills through May 25:

The NPCSC is expected to release its 2024 work priorities and 2024 plans for legislative, oversight, and delegates-related work sometime this month.

It will convene for its next regularly scheduled session in late June.

NPCSC Seeks Public Comment on 6 Bills: National Defense Education, (Atomic) Energy, Official Statistics, Anti–Money Laundering & Accounting

China’s national legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), is soliciting public comment on the following six bills through May 25, 2024:

Draft NameChinese TextExplanatory Document
National Defense Education Law (Draft Revision)
国防教育法修订草案		PDF ΔPDF
Accounting Law (Draft Amendment)
会计法修正草案		PDF ΔPDF
Statistics Law (Draft Amendment)
统计法修正草案		PDF ΔPDF
Energy Law (Draft)
能源法草案		PDFPDF
Atomic Energy Law (Draft)
原子能法草案		PDFPDF
Anti–Money Laundering Law (Draft Revision)
反洗钱法修订草案		PDF Δ
(English · Δ)		PDF

English translations will be provided if and when available. All explanatory documents are in Chinese and compiled in a single PDF; the links above will take you to the corresponding pages in the PDF only if you use a desktop browser—this does not work on a phone or a tablet.

To submit comment online, please refer to this guide. Comments can also be mailed to the NPCSC Legislative Affairs Commission [全国人大常委会法制工作委员会] at the following address:

北京市西城区前门西大街1号 邮编: 100805
1 West Qianmen Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing 100805

Please clearly write “<Draft Name in Chinese>征求意见” on the envelope.

NPCSC Session Watch: National Defense Education, (Atomic) Energy, Anti–Money Laundering & Official Statistics

UPDATE (Apr. 26, 2024): On April 26, 2024, the NPCSC approved the Academic Degrees Law (effective Jan. 1, 2025) and the Tariff Law (effective Dec. 1, 2024). It also adopted the amendments to the Agricultural Technology Popularization Law, Minors Protection Law, and Biosecurity Law. For reasons unknown, the State Council’s request for an authorization to pilot reforms of the Food Safety Law in the Hainan Free Trade Port was not put to a vote.

Wind farm in Shanxi. Photo by Hahaheditor12667 (cropped). CC BY-SA 4.0.

China’s top legislature, the 14th NPC Standing Committee (NPCSC), will convene for its ninth session from April 23 to 26, the Council of Chairpersons decided on Tuesday, April 16. The Council proposed an agenda with ten legislative bills, which we preview below. It also approved the NPCSC’s 2024 work priorities as well as 2024 plans for legislative, oversight, and delegates-related work, which we expect will be released after the upcoming session.

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