Law seeks to regulate potable water dispensers
Jun. 8, 2013 -- The operators of the city's roughly 5,000 water vending machines will face fines of up to 10,000 yuan ($1,629) for failing to meet health requirements under a new law introduced to ...
View ArticleRevisions to food safety laws 'urgently' needed
June 15, 2013 -- China is considering revisions to its Food Safety Law, according to its top food and drug regulator. An official from China Food and Drug Administration, who preferred to remain a...
View ArticleChina mulls food safety law amendment
BEIJING, June 19, 2013 -- The State Council, China's cabinet, has listed a food safety law amendment as the nation's legislative work for 2013, the China Food and Drug Administration announced on W...
View ArticleChina considers harsher legislation against polluters
BEIJING, June 26, 2013 -- The draft amendment to the environmental protection law, tabled for the second reading Wednesday, has adopted harsher punishment on polluters and highlighted the public's ...
View ArticleChina mulls law to ensure elevator safety
BEIJING, June 26, 2013 -- China's legislature on Wednesday reviewed a draft law on the safety of special equipment including elevators, boilers, cranes and large recreation facilities. The draft w...
View ArticleAnti-terrorist legislation may be speeded up
Jun. 28, 2013 -- China may speed up anti-terrorism legislation, a senior official said on Wednesday morning. Guo Shengkun, minister of public security, said the ministry is planning to work with ...
View ArticleChina passes law to curb special equipment accidents
BEIJING, June 29, 2013 -- China's legislature on Saturday passed a law on the safety of special equipment including elevators, boilers, cranes and large recreation facilities, amid public concerns ...
View ArticleNew exit and entry law effective
BEIJING, July 1, 2013 -- A new exit and entry law that stipulates harsher punishments for foreigners who illegally enter, live or work in China takes effect on July 1, 2013. After three readings s...
View ArticleNew exit-entry law goes into effect in China
BEIJING, July 1, 2013 -- A new law that will facilitate exit and entry for both Chinese and foreign citizens went into effect on Monday. The new law, adopted by the top legislature on June 30, 201...
View ArticleRevised elderly care law goes into effect
BEIJING, July 1, 2013 -- A revised version of the Law for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly took effect on Monday, urging the relatives of elderly people to regularly visit ...
View ArticleStronger laws urged to protect personal information
July 2, 2013 -- Tougher measures to ensure the security of personal information are needed, legal experts said, after police detained four people accused of illegally purchasing students' family de...
View ArticleRevised elderly people's welfare law goes into effect
BEIJING, July 2, 2013 -- A revised version of the elderly people's welfare law is now in effect in China. The revised Law for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly has already ...
View ArticleNew law requires adults to visit elderly parents regularly
BEIJING, July 2, 2013 -- Maybe you call your parents, or email them regularly. Well here in China, the law has just been amended. Under the new clause introduced on Monday, elderly parents who feel...
View ArticleExperts demand better child protection laws
July 5, 2013 -- Experts have called for improvements in China's child protection laws and regulations, citing a recent case of neglect in which two children died of starvation while in their mother...
View ArticleLawmaker urges to draw nuclear-safety laws faster
July 9, 2013 -- A top legislator said on Monday that the procedure to draft laws related to nuclear and radiation safety should be faster. Shen Yueyue, vice-chairwoman of the National People's Con...
View ArticleNew visa law offers lifeline to foreigners during emergencies
BEIJING, Jul.17, 2013 -- China's new Exit and Entry Administration Law is proving useful for foreign sailors in emergency situations. In early July, Garcia Cristopher Jusayan, a Filipino sailor on...
View ArticleTianjin: ten policies to promote employment
July 17, 2013 (chinahumanrights.org) -- According to Tianjin Municipal Human Resources And Social Security Bureau, unemployed college graduates in Tianjin have been included in the government's ser...
View ArticleChina to revise military facilities protection law
BEIJING, July 23, 2013 -- China plans to revise the law on the protection of military facilities and is soliciting public opinions on a draft amendment. The draft forbids the construction and inst...
View ArticleChina solicits opinions on harsher environmental law
BEIJING, Aug. 1, 2013 -- China on Thursday began soliciting public opinions on a draft amendment to the environmental protection law that proposes harsher punishments for polluters. Public opinion...
View ArticleChina's lawmakers hold group reviews on consumer rights law
BEIJING, Aug. 27, 2013 -- China's lawmakers on Tuesday held group reviews on draft amendments to the consumer rights law regarding consumer associations' rights to file a lawsuit. The draft amendm...
View ArticleTrademark Law amendment adopted at concluding NPC session
BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2013 -- China's top legislature concluded a bimonthly session on Friday, adopting an amendment to the Trademark Law and a decision that allows law implementation modification in a...
View ArticleChina considers changes to consumer rights law
BEIJING, Aug. 26, 2013 -- China's lawmakers are deliberating changes to the consumer rights law dealing with unconditional returns and false advertising. The draft amendment to the Law of the Peop...
View ArticleChina passes new trademark law to curb infringements
BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2013 -- China's legislature on Friday passed a new trademark law to crack down on infringement and ensure a fair market for Chinese and foreign trademark holders. After three rea...
View ArticleChina's legislature adopts amendment to Trademark Law
BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2013 -- The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, concluded its bimonthly session on Friday, adopting an amendment to the Trademark ...
View ArticleChina Focus: New tourism law spurs Chinese independent travel
HEFEI, Oct. 3, 2013 -- China's first tourism law, in aiming to upgrade the country's tourism industry, has caused travel agencies to raise prices, spurring more Chinese to become independent travel...
View ArticleTourism law forces agencies to play by new rules
BEIJING, Oct. 1, 2013 -- Several Chinese travel agencies have raised tour package prices in response to the country's first tourism law, which took effect Tuesday and bans profits from hidden trave...
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Change to law may make it easier to sue polluters
An elderly man exercises on the side of Songhua River in the heavily polluted city of Jilin, Jilin province, on Feb 24. Heng Guoliang / For China Daily Oct. 22, 2013 -- A proposed draft amend...
View ArticleDraft consumer rights law revision pledges higher compensation
BEIJING, Oct. 21, 2013 -- A bill to revise the law on protection of consumer rights and interests, tabled for a third reading on Monday, promises higher compensation for consumer loss. The bill wa...
View ArticleChange to law may make it easier to sue polluters
BEIJING, Oct. 22, 2013 -- A proposed draft amendment to the Environmental Protection Law would make it easier for agencies to file public interest lawsuits against polluters. Environment agencies ...
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China's top legislature ends bimonthly session, adopts revision to consumer...
Zhang Dejiang, chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, speaks during the closing meeting of the fifth session of the 12th NPC Standing Committee in Beijing, capit...
View ArticleEnvironmental protection amendment not put to vote after third reading
BEIJING, Oct. 25, 2013 -- China's top legislature decided Friday not to vote on a draft amendment to the environmental protection law after a third reading, as legislators called for harsher action...
View ArticleChina amends consumer rights law
BEIJING, Oct. 25, 2013 -- China's top legislature Friday passed a revision to the law on consumer rights and interests, the first time since the legislation was adopted in 1993. A total of 150 mem...
View ArticleOpinions solicited on draft food safety law
BEIJING, Oct. 29, 2013 -- The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council on Tuesday began to solicit public opinions on a draft amendment to the food safety law that imposes harsher punishment...
View ArticleChina's consumer law to curb multinationals' double standards: expert
BEIJING, Oct. 29, 2013 -- China's newly revised consumer rights law, which tightens the liability of businesses, may help prevent multinationals from applying double standards on Chinese consumers,...
View ArticleRevised consumer law to strengthen association
Oct. 31, 2013 -- The revised consumer rights law will boost the China Consumers' Association by redefining its role and solving its funding issues, according to experts. The revision to the Law on...
View ArticleRevised law expected to curb false advertising
BEIJING, Oct. 31, 2013 -- The newly revised consumer rights law will help protect consumers from false advertisement, especially those of food and medicine, said a senior official with the China Co...
View ArticleChina to amend laws for admin procedure cuts
BEIJING, Dec. 23, 2013 -- China's top legislature has started review of a motion to streamline business administration through changes to seven laws, exempting more items from central government ap...
View ArticleChina mulls abolition of reeducation through labor
BEIJING, Dec. 23, 2013 -- The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) began reading a motion on abolition of the reeducation through labor system (laojiao) on Monday. The State ...
View ArticleChina reviews bill to ease one-child policy
BEIJING, Dec. 23, 2013 -- A bill was tabled for reading by the top legislature Monday, which seeks to allow couples to have two children if either of them is an only child. The State Council, or C...
View ArticleChina begins e-commerce legislation
BEIJING, Dec. 30, 2013 -- China started a two-and-a-half-year process of drafting a comprehensive e-commerce law on Friday as its e-commerce market expands at full speed. A drafting group for the ...
View ArticleDraft toughens work safety law
Jan. 16, 2014 -- A draft amendment to the work safety law that sets harsher punishments for those responsible for work accidents will soon be passed by the State Council and presented to the top le...
View ArticleOfficials vow to draft guardianship laws
Jan. 22, 2014 -- Policymakers pledged to come up with measures on transferring guardianship for minors before 2015 amid recent reports of children who had been abused to death. A 7-year-old girl w...
View ArticleBeijing passes anti-pollution law
Jan. 23, 2014 -- The city of Beijing will ban the construction of new oil refining, steel, cement and thermal power plants as well as the expansion of existing projects, the local government said i...
View ArticleChina mulls workplace safety law revision
BEIJING, Feb. 25, 2014 -- China's top legislature on Tuesday reviewed a bill on revising the workplace safety law, in an attempt to close possible loopholes. The bill was tabled at the bi-monthly ...
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Yu Zhengsheng presides over CPPCC biweekly symposium on amendments to...
Mar. 21, 2014 Yu Zhengsheng (front), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), presides over a biweekly symposium of the CPPCC on...
View ArticleChina to draft counter-terrorism law if required
BEIJING, March 9, 2014 -- China will work on a counter-terrorism law if the fight against terrorism requires it, said a senior official with the top legislature here on Sunday. To draft a counter-...
View ArticleChinese expert urges enforcement of heritage protection law
BEIJING, March 9, 2014 -- China needs to better enforce its law on the protection of intangible cultural heritage, at a time when most heritage items remain endangered, a renowned scholar said Sund...
View ArticleLegislator gives hope of tougher environmental legislation
BEIJING, March 9, 2014 -- Chinese top legislator Zhang Dejiang on Sunday pledged to enhance environmental legislation and oversight of pollutant emissions, giving hope that the country's long-debat...
View ArticleChina's top legislature considers trimming death penalty crimes
BEIJING, March 9, 2014 -- The National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, is considering reducing the number of crimes subject to the death penalty, an NPC official said on Sunday. ...
View ArticleReport advises nuke security legislation for China
BEIJING, March 10, 2014 -- The Natural Resources Defense Council's China Program issued a report on Monday advising the country to make laws concerning nuclear security as soon as possible. The re...
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