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Law and the Law on Futures and Derivatives; revised the Anti-Monopoly
Law, the Securities Law, the Workplace Safety Law, the Audit Law, the Urban
Real Estate Administration Law, the Law on the Protection of Investment of

Taiwan Compatriots, and the Foreign Trade Law; and deliberated a draft law
on financial stability, draft revisions to the Company Law, and other draft
laws.
We revised the Patent Law, the Copyright Law, and the Scientific and

Technological Progress Law to help build China’s strength and self-reliance in
science and technology. To ensure taxation is administered in accordance
with the law, we enacted the Cultivated Land Occupation Tax Law, the
Vehicle Purchase Tax Law, the Resource Tax Law, the Urban Maintenance
and Construction Tax Law, the Deed Transfer Tax Law, and the Stamp Tax
Law; we revised the Individual Income Tax Law; and we deliberated a draft

law on value-added tax. With laws having been made for 12 out of 18 tax
categories, we have further improved the legal system for taxation.
(2) We accelerated legislation relating to national security.

Giving prominence to safeguarding national security in our legislative
work, we formulated the Biosecurity Law, the Data Security Law, the
Cryptography Law, the Land Border Law, and the Anti-Organized Crime

Law; we revised the Counter-Terrorism Law, the National Intelligence Law,
the Archives Law, and the Maritime Traffic Safety Law; and we deliberated
draft revisions to the Counter-Espionage Law.
To step up legislation in foreign-related fields, we enacted the Law on

Countering Foreign Sanctions and the Export Control Law and deliberated
draft laws on foreign relations and foreign state immunity. With these efforts,
we improved the legal system for opposing foreign sanctions, interference,
and long-arm jurisdiction and provided legal protection for the interests of
our country and our people.

We ratified treaties and important agreements in areas such as extradition,
criminal judicial assistance, countering extremism, transfer of sentenced
persons, arms trade, joint military exercises, counter-terrorism, and civil
aviation. We formulated the Law on International Mutual Legal Assistance in
Criminal Matters and revised the Criminal Procedure Law, thus providing

legal means for pursuing fugitives who have fled abroad and recovering
stolen state assets.

We formulated the Coast Guard Law, the Law on the Protection of the
Status, Rights, and Interests of Servicepersons, the Reserve Forces Law, and
the Regulations on Firefighter Ranks. We revised the National Defense Law,
the Law on the People’s Armed Police, the Military Service Law, and the Law
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