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on the Protection of Military Installations. We made decisions on temporarily
adjusting the application of certain laws during the reform of the national
defense mobilization system, on the rank system for active-duty enlisted

service members of the People’s Liberation Army, and on adjusting the
application of certain provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law for the
military during wartime. All this has helped strengthen the rule of law in
national defense and military development.

(3) We established a system of laws for environmental protection.
We stepped up legislative work in environmental protection to promote
ecological advancement. We formulated the Law on the Prevention and

Control of Soil Pollution, the Law on the Prevention and Control of Noise
Pollution, and the Wetland Conservation Law and revised the Law on the
Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes, the
Wildlife Protection Law, and the Forest Law. We formulated the Yangtze
River Protection Law, the Yellow River Protection Law, and the Black Soil
Protection Law; we drafted and deliberated a law on ecological conservation
on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and revisions to the Marine Environment

Protection Law; and we adopted a resolution on strengthening environmental
protection across the board and advancing the battle against pollution in
accordance with the law.

Through unremitting efforts, we have developed a “1+N+4” legal system
for environmental protection, which consists of the Environmental Protection
Law as the foundational, umbrella law; a number of laws in specific areas
including air, water, solid wastes, soil, noise, sea, wetlands, grasslands, forests,
and deserts; and four laws for special regions, namely the Yangtze River
Protection Law, the Yellow River Protection Law, the Black Soil Protection
Law, and the draft law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet

Plateau currently under deliberation. In doing so, we have effectively
advanced the Beautiful China Initiative, which aims to achieve harmony
between humanity and nature.

(4) We carried out legislative work to promote social development and improve the
people’s wellbeing.
To protect our citizens’ right to education, we formulated the Family
Education Promotion Law and revised the Education Law and the Vocational

Education Law, thus driving modernization in the education sector. We drew
up a work plan for enacting and revising laws to strengthen the rule of law in
the public health sector. We formulated the Law on Basic Medical and Health
Care and the Promotion of Health, the Vaccine Administration Law, and the
Physicians Law; revised the Law on Animal Epidemic Prevention and the

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