Month: May 2024

NPC Calendar: June 2024

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

The Law on Ensuring Food Security [粮食安全保障法] (adopted on Dec. 29, 2023) takes effect on June 1.

The 14th NPC Standing Committee (NPCSC) will convene for its 10th session in late June. The Council of Chairpersons is expected to meet in mid-June to decide on the agenda and dates of the session.

According to the NPCSC’s 2024 legislative work plan, the following bills will return for further review:

The NPCSC’s April 29, 2021 decision (zh | en) authorizing the State Council to temporarily suspend or relax certain regulatory requirements in seven laws1 within China’s free trade zones will expire on July 1. The NPCSC is expected to codify the reforms (in whole or in part) or extend the authorization at the upcoming session.

The State Council’s request for an authorization to allow mortgaging the right to use rural house sites [宅基地使用权] (which is otherwise prohibited by the Civil Code [民法典]) in selected localities—submitted and last reviewed by the NPCSC in June 2022—may return for further review.

The session may also consider one or more bills scheduled for an initial review this year by the NPCSC’s 2024 legislative work plan.

  1. The statutes at issue are the Private Education Promotion Law [民办教育促进法], Accounting Law [会计法], Certified Public Accountants Law [注册会计师法], Auction Law [拍卖法], Banking Supervision and Administration Law [银行业监督管理法], Commercial Banks Law [商业银行法], and Insurance Law [保险法]. An amendment to the Accounting Law is currently pending before the NPCSC, but it appears the bill would retain the relevant regulatory requirement. ↩︎

China’s National Legislature Releases 2024 Legislative Plan

On Wednesday, May 8, China’s national legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), released its legislative work plan for 2024 (Plan). The Plan was preliminarily approved by the Council of Chairpersons in December 2023 and finalized on April 16. It sets forth priorities for all aspects of the NPCSC’s legislative work in 2024, which include a list of legislative projects slated for review or research this year. Other aspects of the NPCSC’s legislative work include dealing with expiring reform authorizations; conducting constitutional review of draft laws; improving the quality of legislation and legislative procedure; and raising public awareness of the NPC’s legislative activities. As usual, we will focus on the list of legislative projects in this post, but will also note a few other notable tasks included in the Plan.

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