Here is our recap of NPC-related events in August 2025 at our newsletter.

UPDATE (July 31, 2025, at 08:56 EDT): The State Council on July 31 approved a draft Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement Law [耕地保护法和质量提升法], which the session is likely to review as well.

The 14^th NPC Standing Committee will convene for its seventeenth session in late August. The Council of Chairpersons is expected to meet in mid-August to decide on the agenda and dates of the session.

According to the NPCSC’s 2025 legislative work plan, the draft Financial Stability Law [金融稳定法] will return for further review.

One or more of the following bills may also return for further review:

• draft Atomic Energy Law [原子能法];
• draft Public Health Emergency Response Law [突发公共卫生事件应对法];
• draft National Parks Law [国家公园法];
• draft revision to the Maritime Law [海商法];
• draft revision to the Arbitration Law [仲裁法];
• draft Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law [法治宣传教育法];
• draft revision to the Fisheries Law [渔业法];
• draft revision to the Civil Aviation Law [民用航空法]; and
• draft amendment to the Food Safety Law [食品安全法].

Finally, the session may take up one or more of the bills scheduled for initial review this year under the NPCSC’s 2025 legislative work plan.