BEIJING: More legislative items, especially those in key areas, emerging fields and foreign-related fields, have been unveiled this year as legislators made greater efforts to optimize the country’s legal system, an official from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, said.
Wang Xiang, spokesman for the NPC Standing Committee’s Legislative Affairs Commission, said five new pieces of laws, including the Energy Law and the Preschool Education Law, have been formulated since the beginning of the year, bringing the total number of laws in effect to 305. Meanwhile, 14 other laws were also improved through revisions this year, with the adoption of four legislative decisions, according to him.
“Specifically, we amended laws regarding national defense education, state secrets and emergency response to better safeguard the national security and strengthen the governance capability,” he said. “We also advanced the legal construction involving foreign matters by modifying a law against money laundering and formulating a tariff law.”
In addition, he noted that several legislative pieces, including those on financial stability, administrative penalties, maritime and arbitration, are still being reviewed among Chinese lawmakers to serve the country’s high-quality development. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
