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โ๏ธ Independent coverage of China's National People's Congress and its Standing Committee. DM closed because of bots; find us elsewhere ๐
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NEW POST โ Chinaโs National Legislature Releases 2026 Legislative Plan
34 bills have been scheduled for review in 2026, with many more as backups.
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New newsletter just dropped!
newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/2025-recordiโฆ
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2. It also enacted the Social Assistance Law, effective July 1, 2026.
npcobserver.com/legislation/soโฆ
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1. It revised the Prisons Law, effective Nov. 1, 2026.
npcobserver.com/legislation/prโฆ
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๐งต๐ชก NEW: On Friday, China's national legislature, the NPC Standing Committee, passed two bills.
The full text of each law, as well as the associated legislative records and comparison charts, can be found on the corresponding bill page linked below.
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NEW POST โ NPC Calendar: May 2026 npcobserver.com/2026/04/30/npcโฆ
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NEW POST โ Chinese Legislature Seeks Public Comment on 6 Bills: Defense Mobilization, State-Owned Enterprise Assets, Healthcare, Water Resources & Agriculture
Comments period closes on May 29.
npcobserver.com/2026/04/30/chiโฆ
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Chinaโs national legislature is in session through Thursday.
Check out whatโs on the agenda: npcobserver.com/2026/04/22/chiโฆ
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NEW POST โ NPCSC Session Watch: Prison Administration, Social Welfare, Defense Mobilization, State-Owned Enterprise Assets, Water Resources & Agriculture
npcobserver.com/2026/04/22/chiโฆ
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NEW POST โ China Elevates Environmental Law to an Official Branch of Law
New branch includes the Environmental Code and 20-plus statutes on natural resources and ecological conservation.
npcobserver.com/2026/03/20/chiโฆ
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#NewDraftLaw: China's Ministry of Justice & 4 other agencies are seeking public comment on a draft ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐ [้่ๆณ] through Apr. 19, 2026.
Official announcement: moj.gov.cn/pub/sfbgw/lfyjโฆ
Bill page w/ draft & explanation in PDF: npcobserver.com/legislation/fiโฆ
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NEW POST โ NPC 2026: Chinese Legislature Revokes Landmark 1985 Delegation of Economic Lawmaking Power to the State Council
It also repealed Chinaโs 1988 state-owned enterprise (SOE) law, following the conversion of traditional SOEs into modern companies.
npcobserver.com/2026/03/18/chiโฆ
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NEW POST โ NPC 2026: Documents and Votes
npcobserver.com/2026/03/16/chiโฆ
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This is in fact also not new (which we also noted in our coverage!)
The ethnic unity law essentially just restates the requirements of the 2021 Family Education Promotion Law, which @chinalawtransl8 analyzed here: chinalawtranslate.com/en/working-papโฆ
Henry Gao@henrysgao
The more consequential provisions, in my view, are the following two. 1. Article 20 Peopleโs governments at all levels must incorporate the goal of strengthening the โChinese national communityโ into family education, and family values. Parents/guardians must educate minors to
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We wrote about the revised common language law here: npcobserver.com/2026/01/27/chiโฆ
But as we also noted, the ethnic unity law does go beyond the common language law: npcobserver.com/2026/03/05/chiโฆ
Henry Gao@henrysgao
appeared repeatedly in earlier laws. For instance, the widely cited clause โNo organization or individual shall obstruct citizens from learning and using the national common languageโwas already included in the National Common Language & Writing Law when it was amended last year.
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All that's to say we don't have any magic power to divine the hidden meaning of Chinese statutory text when there is none!
Anyway, here's our first look at the environmental code:
npcobserver.com/2026/03/11/chiโฆ
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You can read the primary source, a report issued by the NPC Environmental Protection and Resource Conservation Committee in 2024, here (the relevant passages are on page 14 of the PDF):
#page=14" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">npcobserver.com/wp-content/uplโฆ
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This @business Bloomberg report cites us as "read[ing]" Part IV of China's new environmental code "as paving the way for a future climate law."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/โฆ
We didn't say we read the law that way and we aren't sure one *can* read it that way.
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