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)