Twenty draft laws and law amendments are to be discussed this
year:
February: Employment promotion law
March: Property law; corporate income tax
law
April: Labor dispute arbitration law; town and
country planning law
June: Labor contract law; amendment to the
Energy Saving Law; amendment to the Lawyer Law; amendment to the
Civil Procedure Law
August: Circular economy law; 7th amendment to
the Criminal Law; amendment to the Law on Science and Technology
Progress
October: Illegal acts corrective law; amendment
to the Criminal Procedure Law
December: Social insurance law; amendment to
the Food Safety Law
The draft emergency response law, administrative mandatory law,
anti-drug law and anti-monopoly law will also be discussed this
year, but no specific schedule is presently available.
(China Daily March 1, 2007)