Welcome to the first installment of NPC Observer Monthly, a monthly newsletter about China’s national legislature: the National People’s Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee (NPCSC). Thank you for being one of our very first subscribers!
Each issue will start with “News of the Month,” a recap of major NPC-related events from the previous month, with links to any coverage we have published on our main site, NPC Observer. If, during that month, we have also written posts that aren’t tied to current events, I’ll then provide a round-up in “Non-News of the Month.” Finally, I may end an issue, as I did today’s, with some not-necessarily-polished musings on a NPC-related topic that is in some way connected to the past month.
This newsletter is very much a work in progress. If you have feedback on how we can improve this new service, or if there’s anything you’d like us to discuss in future issues, please don’t hesitate to reach out. And if you enjoyed this issue, I hope you’ll consider sharing it. —Changhao
News of the Month
On May 1, the revised Wild Animals Protection Law [野生动物保护法] (adopted on Dec. 30, 2022) took effect. This bill was put on the NPCSC’s legislative agenda soon after the initial COVID-19 outbreak as part of a coordinated effort to strengthen China’s public health legislation.
On May 25, the NPCSC concluded a month-long public consultation on a second draft of the Barrier-Free Environments Development Law [无障碍环境建设法]. This bill will likely pass in the next several months, and we’ll have more coverage then.
On May 19, the NPCSC released its annual plans on oversight and delegates work for 2023.
Oversight work: The NPCSC’s “oversight work” [监督工作] consists of both policy oversight (to monitor the general direction of administrative and judicial policymaking) and compliance oversight (to ensure implementation of binding legal obligations). The full NPCSC conducts oversight primarily by hearing and examining reports—what an annual oversight plan is mostly concerned with. It lists all the reports the NPCSC will hear throughout the year as well as the information each report must include. We plan to publish an explainer sorting the NPCSC’s various oversight reports in June.
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