RECOMMENDED ANALYSIS
China Law Translate › Keeping an Eye on the Watch Dog (2): Changes to the Supervision Law
The amended law expands supervision powers to include a broader spectrum of measures that limit suspects’ freedom to different degrees.
Supervision Law of the People’s Republic of China
中华人民共和国监察法
[Current Text: Chinese, English]
(adopted and effective Mar. 20, 2018; amended Dec. 25, 2024, effective June 1, 2025)
- Status: Amendment passed
- Legislative Body (Vote): NPCSC (N/A)
- Primary Drafter & Submitter: State Supervision Commission
- Legislative Plans
- Five-year: N/A
- Annual: 2024
- Legislative History & Text
- Legislative Records
- Explanation (Sept. 10, 2024)
- Report on Results of Deliberation (Dec. 21, 2024)
- Report on Suggestions for Revision (Dec. 24, 2024)
- Presidential Order (Dec. 25, 2024)
NPC Observer Coverage
- NPCSC Session Watch: Anti-Corruption, Defense Education, Public Health Emergency, Government Debt, National Parks & State Honors (Aug. 27, 2024)
- The NPC and the 2024 Third Plenum Decision (July 31, 2024)
PRIOR BILL: 2018 Enactment
- Status: Passed
- Legislative Body (Vote): NPC (2914–28–18)
- Principal Drafters: ☭ Central Commission for Disciplinary Inspection & NPCSC Legislative Affairs Commission
- Initial Submitter: Council of Chairpersons
- Law Repealed: Administrative Supervision Law [行政监察法]
- Legislative Plans
- Five-year: 12th NPCSC Category I; 13th NPCSC Category I
- Annual: 2017, 2018
- Legislative History & Text
- NPC deliberation – final round: Mar. 5 – 20, 2018 (Chinese | English › NPC; China Law Translate)
- NPCSC deliberation – round #2: Dec. 22 – 27, 2017 (Chinese & English)
- NPCSC deliberation – round #1: June 23 – 27, 2017 (Chinese, English) 💬
- Legislative Records
- NPCSC Stage
- Explanation (June 23, 2017)
- Report on Status of Revision (Dec. 22, 2017)
- NPC Stage
- Explanation (Mar. 13, 2018)
- Report on Results of Deliberation (Mar. 15, 2018)
- Report on Suggestions for Revision (Mar. 17, 2018)
- Presidential Order (Mar. 20, 2018)
- NPCSC Stage
NPC Observer Coverage
- Translation: Second Draft of the Supervision Law (监察法二次审议稿) (Feb. 5, 2018)
- NPCSC to End 2017 with Blockbuster December Session (Dec. 16, 2017)
- Next Steps for the Supervision Law & Procedural Possibility of a Constitutional Amendment in 2018 (Nov. 29, 2017)
- NPC Standing Committee Schedules Major Legislation for 2017 (May 3, 2017)
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中华人民共和国监察官法
(adopted Aug. 20, 2021, effective Jan. 1, 2022)
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(adopted Aug. 20, 2021, effective Jan. 1, 2022)
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中华人民共和国公职人员政务处分法
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Last updated: August 27, 2025, 20:50 EDT