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⚖️ Independent coverage of China's National People's Congress and its Standing Committee. DM closed because of bots; find us elsewhere 👇

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NEW POST – NPC Calendar: June 2026 https://t.co/fE9PzIXNgd

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#NewDraftLaw: China's National Mine Safety Administration is seeking public comment on a draft 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒘 [矿山安全法] through June 20, 2026.

Official announcement: https://t.co/zTxbqVdMO7

Bill page w/ draft & explanation in PDF: https://t.co/6nCzF75cdc

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#NewDraftLaw: China's National Mine Safety Administration is seeking public comment on a draft 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒘 [矿山安全法] through June 20, 2026.

Official announcement: https://t.co/zTxbqVdMO7

Bill page w/ draft & explanation in PDF: https://t.co/6nCzF75cdc

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https://t.co/I4nqA6nmRG

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NEW POST – China’s National Legislature Releases 2026 Legislative Plan

34 bills have been scheduled for review in 2026, with many more as backups.

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2. It also enacted the Social Assistance Law, effective July 1, 2026.
https://t.co/53j7WJWJ7n

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🧵🪡 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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1. It revised the Prisons Law, effective Nov. 1, 2026.
https://t.co/5oREHfJwcC

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NEW POST – NPC Calendar: May 2026 https://t.co/ZY5nrSFQxN

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NEW POST – Chinese Legislature Seeks Public Comment on 6 Bills: Defense Mobilization, State-Owned Enterprise Assets, Healthcare, Water Resources & Agriculture

Comments period closes on May 29.

https://t.co/fsxR3sqcT2

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China’s national legislature is in session through Thursday.

Check out what’s on the agenda: https://t.co/nH53pXIXTZ

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NEW POST – NPCSC Session Watch: Prison Administration, Social Welfare, Defense Mobilization, State-Owned Enterprise Assets, Water Resources & Agriculture

https://t.co/nH53pXIXTZ

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NEW POST – 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.

https://t.co/KrNeZmOTtO

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#NewDraftLaw: China's Ministry of Justice & 4 other agencies are seeking public comment on a draft 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒘 [金融法] through Apr. 19, 2026.

Official announcement: https://t.co/H6iw6kb2XB

Bill page w/ draft & explanation in PDF: https://t.co/NbNme1RQ5i

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NEW POST – NPC 2026: Chinese Legislature Revokes Landmark 1985 Delegation of Economic Lawmaking Power to the State Council

It also repealed China’s 1988 state-owned enterprise (SOE) law, following the conversion of traditional SOEs into modern companies.

https://t.co/Pcu2pgZcid

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NEW POST – NPC 2026: Chinese Legislature Revokes Landmark 1985 Delegation of Economic Lawmaking Power to the State Council

It also repealed China’s 1988 state-owned enterprise (SOE) law, following the conversion of traditional SOEs into modern companies.

https://t.co/Pcu2pgZcid

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NEW POST – NPC 2026: Documents and Votes

https://t.co/CkQkrRvPPk

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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: https://t.co/cKwqFgnOYG

[Henry Gao @henrysgao]

The more consequential provisions, in my view, are the following two.

1. Article 20

People’s governments at all levels must incorporate the goal of strengthening the “Chinese national community” 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: https://t.co/76gfwrGN4N

But as we also noted, the ethnic unity law does go beyond the common language law: https://t.co/6YUpXOv6XV

[Henry Gao @henrysgao]

appeared repeatedly in earlier laws. For instance, the widely cited clause “No organization or individual shall obstruct citizens from learning and using the national common language”was already included in the National Common Language & Writing Law when it was amended last year.