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China's national legislature will meet for a regular session toward the end of the month/year. Here's our preview of its legislative agenda: npcobserver.com/2025/11/28/npcโ€ฆ


Hereโ€™s the latest issue of our newsletter, where we discuss provisions in 2 newly updated laws that concern the CCPโ€™s role in neighborhood governance and a draft law that could potential weaken environmental public interest litigstion in China. open.substack.com/pub/npcobserveโ€ฆ


NEW: On Friday, Nov. 14, the State Council approved a draft revision to China's Trademark Law [ๅ•†ๆ ‡ๆณ•] and decided to submit it to the NPC Standing Committee for deliberation. Initial legislative review could occur as soon as late December. npcobserver.com/legislation/trโ€ฆ


China's new Public Health Emergency Response Law [็ชๅ‘ๅ…ฌๅ…ฑๅซ็”Ÿไบ‹ไปถๅบ”ๅฏนๆณ•] and Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law [ๆณ•ๆฒปๅฎฃไผ ๆ•™่‚ฒๆณ•] just took effect on November 1. We briefly discussed both in our recent newsletter: newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/september-20โ€ฆ


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Full text of the Law as amended is available here: zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E4%B8%ADโ€ฆ *โš ๏ธ Note this is NOT the official full text and there might be errors in internal cross-references and article numbering* (yes we did make it)


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We have prepared a chart comparing the 2016 Law with the three available versions of the amendments: npcobserver.com/wp-content/uplโ€ฆ

NPC_Observer's tweet image. We have prepared a chart comparing the 2016 Law with the three available versions of the amendments: npcobserver.com/wp-content/uplโ€ฆ

NEW: Following personnel changes to the CCP Central Military Commission at the 4th Plenum, on Oct. 28 China's national legislature appointed Zhang Shengmin as a vice chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission while removing He Weidong from that body. npc.gov.cn/npc/c2/c30834/โ€ฆ


NEW: China's national legislature is seeking public comment on 4 billsโ€”new draft laws on procuratorate-initiated public interest litigation & arable land protection + 2 parts of the draft Environmental Codeโ€”for public comment through Nov. 26: npcobserver.com/2025/10/28/chiโ€ฆ


Read a bilingual version of the decision here: npcobserver.com/legislation/deโ€ฆ

BREAKING: The PRC national legislature today adopted a decision designating October 25 (tomorrow) as the annual Taiwan Retrocession Day ๅฐๆนพๅ…‰ๅคๆ—ฅ. 80 years ago tomorrow, Japanese forces in Taiwan surrendered to the Republic of China following Japanโ€™s defeat in WWII.

NPC_Observer's tweet image. BREAKING: The PRC national legislature today adopted a decision designating October 25 (tomorrow) as the annual Taiwan Retrocession Day ๅฐๆนพๅ…‰ๅคๆ—ฅ. 80 years ago tomorrow, Japanese forces in Taiwan surrendered to the Republic of China following Japanโ€™s defeat in WWII.


Our latest newsletter in which we discussed four bills that passed last month: Food Safety Law amendments, Public Health Emergency Response Law, Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law, and National Parks Law: newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/september-20โ€ฆ


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