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distributing, and administering vaccines. Drawing lessons from covid-19
prevention and control efforts, we formulated and implemented special plans for

enacting or revising laws in an effort to strengthen the system of legal guarantees
in the public health sector. We set up a task force to make overall plans for
enacting or revising 30 laws, with the aim of completing most of these legislative
tasks within a year or two. We deliberated draft revisions of the Law on Animal
Epidemic Prevention to enhance monitoring and early warning of epidemics
originating from animals. We drafted the law on biosafety and conducted
deliberations on the draft, in a bid to formulate a law that guards against biological
risks, promotes the development of biotechnology, and serves as a pillar of the

country’s biosafety system.

With a focus on developing our state system and national governance system,
we enhanced legislation pertaining to supervision, justice, social governance, and
national security. We deepened reform of the national supervision system, made a
decision on the formulation of supervisory regulations by the National
Commission of Supervision, and deliberated the draft law on administrative
discipline for government employees. We formulated the Community Correction

Law, deliberated draft revisions of the Law on the Protection of Minors and the
Law on Preventing Juvenile Delinquency, and made the decision to abolish the
system of “custody and education” for prostitution related offences and related
legal regulations, so as to better meet the requirements for social governance in the
new era. We revised the Judges Law and the Public Procurators Law, and
authorized pilot reforms for streamlining civil litigation procedures, in an effort to

consolidate and further our achievements in reform of the judicial system. We
formulated the Cryptography Law and deliberated draft revisions of the Archives
Law to improve legal systems for governance in relevant fields.

The draft Civil Code submitted to this session for deliberation represents an
important milestone in our country’s advancement of the rule of law. Building
upon the work of the Standing Committee of the last NPC, the current Standing
Committee accelerated efforts to compile the Civil Code. In August 2018, we
conducted an overall review of all draft books of the Civil Code, and then carried

out multiple reviews of individual units as well as a review of the complete draft of
the Civil Code. We also solicited opinions from the public on seven occasions,
receiving more than 900,000 comments from various sectors. Through repeated
and meticulous revisions, we have compiled this draft Civil Code which consists of
1,260 articles in 7 books. We are confident that, through the careful deliberation of

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