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Drug Administration Law; and made a decision to completely ban the illegal
trade and consumption of wildlife.

Addressing issues of great public concern, we formulated the Personal
Information Protection Law, the Law on Countering Telecom and Online
Fraud, the Legal Aid Law, the Community Correction Law, and the Law on
Food Waste; we revised the Civil Procedure Law, the Administrative Penalty
Law, the Social Insurance Law, the Population and Family Planning Law, and

the Physical Culture and Sports Law; we made a decision to abolish the
system of custody and education for prostitution-related offences and related
legal regulations; and we deliberated draft revisions to the Administrative
Procedures Law and other laws. These efforts have helped protect our
people’s rights and interests and enhance public wellbeing through legal
means.

We passed Amendment XI to the Criminal Law. We formulated the
Veterans Support Law and revised the Law on the Protection of Women’s
Rights and Interests, the Law on the Protection of Minors, and the Law on
Preventing Juvenile Delinquency, so as to provide stronger protection for the

rights and interests of special groups.
(5) We made authorization and reform decisions.

In response to the legislative needs that arose in advancing reform across
the board, we worked hard to ensure that all national development endeavors
and major reforms have a solid legal basis. To deepen reform in state
institutions, we issued decisions on adjusting the statutory functions of

administrative bodies involved in the institutional reform of the State Council,
on the functions of the NPC Constitution and Law Committee, and on China
Coast Guard’s functions and powers with regard to protecting maritime
rights and enforcing maritime law.

To ensure smooth progress of reform initiatives and pilot projects, we
conducted 57 rounds of revision on relevant laws; we authorized the State
Council to temporarily adjust the application of certain laws in pilot free trade
zones three times, to approve a proportion of new local government debt
ceilings in advance, to launch reform trials for property tax, to temporarily
adjust the application of certain provisions of the Metrology Law in pilot

cities for business environment innovation, and to extend the trial periods for
rural land reform and the drug marketing authorization holder system; and
we authorized the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress and its standing
committee to formulate regulations for Pudong New Area.

Focusing on advancing comprehensive and integrated reform of the
judicial system, we made decisions to establish the Shanghai Financial Court,
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