I'd like to make amends for my mistake by offering you a full refund.
我想通过全额退款来弥补我的错误。
He's trying to amend his ways after realizing the impact of his behavior on others.
他意识到自己的行为对他人造成的影响后,正试图改正。
The company is taking steps to amend their flawed customer service policies.
公司正在采取措施修正他们有缺陷的客户服务政策。
Through hard work, she aimed to amend the damage done to her reputation.
她通过努力工作,旨在修复对她名誉造成的损害。
The politician promised to amend the tax laws to benefit the middle class.
这位政治家承诺修改税法以惠及中产阶级。
They are working on amending the contract to better reflect both parties' interests.
他们正在努力修改合同,以便更好地反映双方的利益。
After the argument, he wrote a heartfelt letter in an attempt to amend their friendship.
争吵之后,他写了一封诚挚的信,试图修复他们的友谊。
The author released an updated edition to amend the factual errors found in the first print.
作者发布了更新版,以修正初版中的事实错误。
The new legislation aims to amend the loopholes that allowed for tax evasion.
新的立法旨在修正导致逃税漏洞的条款。
She made a sincere apology and promised to amend her behavior in the future.
她真诚地道歉,并承诺将来会改正自己的行为。
"Before our conversion to a primary listing in Hong Kong, we also need to formulate and submit a new employee stock ownership program to our shareholders for approval in order to comply with the newly amended rules in Hong Kong," Alibaba said in a statement.
阿里巴巴在一份声明中表示:“在我们转为在香港首次上市之前,我们还需要制定并提交一份新的员工持股计划,供股东批准,以遵守香港新修订的规则。”。
The board of directors of China Life announced on Aug 12 that the company will apply for the voluntary delisting of its ADSs from the NYSE and the deregistration of such ADSs and underlying overseas listed shares, under the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
中国人寿董事会于8月12日宣布,公司将根据经修订的1934年《美国证券交易法》,申请将其美国存托股从纽约证券交易所自愿退市,并注销该等美国存托股票和相关海外上市股票的注册。
These actions were further highlighted in China's newly amended Science and Technology Progress Law, which went into effect this year.
这些行动在今年生效的中国新修订的《科学技术进步法》中得到了进一步强调。
A batch of past cases involving tech giants in violation of the Antimonopoly Law were announced and fines published prior to the amended law's taking effect, as the country's antitrust efforts on platform economy will become normalized and predictable to drive its healthy development, industry experts said.
行业专家表示,随着国家对平台经济的反垄断努力将变得正常化和可预测性,以推动其健康发展,在修订后的法律生效之前,公布了一批涉及科技巨头违反《反垄断法》的过去案件,并公布了罚款。
The move forced a relaunch with an amended prospectus and the exclusion of US investors.
此举迫使公司重新启动,修改了招股说明书,并将美国投资者排除在外。
Adopted in 1993, China's Company Law has been amended several times.
1993年通过的《公司法》经过多次修改。
Chinese technology company ByteDance has submitted applications to local authorities to determine whether the company is subject to China's newly amended technology export list, a move experts believed would give Beijing a legitimate lever to protect the lawful rights of companies and safeguard national security.
On April 22, the British media outlet amended the article and published a correction note on April 25 clarifying that Wondfo's test was not one of the products reported.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission was granted long-arm jurisdiction to regulate illegal activities of companies issuing securities overseas when the country's security law was amended on March 1 this year, according to an anonymous insider close to CSRC.
But for operating in line with the rules similar to those established for the well-known low-cost carriers, the Kazakhstan air legislation regarding baggage transportation and own tariffs setting must be amended.
"As China has become a major trade nation for both goods of services, the current law amended in 2004 cannot meet the changing global circumstances," Zhang said.
The country's amended Private Education Promotion Law took effect in September last year.
Google spokeswoman Gina Scigliano said the company disagrees with the "central allegations of this amended lawsuit.
The amended version proposes a narrower class of plaintiffs that includes engineering, research, management, sales and teaching staff.
China has conducted an in-depth and comprehensive analysis and evaluation of all the provisions of the CPTPP and sorted out the reform initiatives that may need to be taken and the laws and regulations that need to be amended, said He Yadong, the ministry's spokesman.
Enacted in 1993 and subsequently amended in 2017 and 2019, the Anti-Unfair Competition Law regulates business operators' unfair competition activities, including commercial secret infringement and commercial bribery.
China's amended Anti-monopoly Law officially came into effect on Monday, which government officials and industry experts said will drive the country's fair competition and innovative development and further boost the competitiveness of its massive domestic market.
"In late June, Chinese lawmakers amended the Anti-monopoly Law to improve rules related to the platform economy, clarifying that platform operators with clear market dominance shall not abuse such leading positions through data, algorithms, technologies or platform rules.
In order to encourage businesses to develop internal export control compliance systems in keeping with their own conditions, standardize business operation and create responsible corporate images, the Ministry of Commerce of China amended and published the Guiding Opinions on Establishing the Internal Compliance Program for Export Control by Exporters of Dual-use Items and the Guidelines for Internal Compliance for Export Control of Dual-use Items in April 2021 according to the Export Control Law and related regulations and based on the new characteristics of export control in the new era.
Industry insiders said when the NPC Standing Committee amends the law after due deliberations, the revised law will ensure the healthy development of the multibilliondollar platform industry, which is now considered a key part of the larger economy.
There were nearly 30 amendments related to fields such as education, medical services, elderly care and social insurance, accounting for 37 percent of the total amended entries.
Zhang also told the conference that China has recently amended its patent, copyright and trademark laws to further improve the protection level.
Furthermore, laws on patents, copyrights and trademarks have also been amended in recent years, with harsher punishments for IP violators and higher compensation for IP owners.
According to the decree, 22 administrative regulations have been amended and one abolished.
Stated differently, there were more than 50 new or amended regulations per month on average.
换句话说,平均每月有超过50项新的或修订的法规出台。
As if to make amends for missed opportunities in the past, couples who have been married for a long time, are jumping on the trendy-wedding bandwagon.
TCM is going global rapidly, as if to make amends for lost time, and to present a worthy alternative to other medicinal systems that appear to have failed to find lasting cures to the world's most troubling diseases.
Earlier this year, China amended its subsidies for new energy vehicle makers, dropping financial help by about 50 percent and scrapping the list of recommended battery suppliers.
The newly amended rules on the recycling of junk vehicles, approved by the State Council last month, remove barriers to private and foreign capital, Vice-Minister of Commerce Wang Bingnan said at a news conference of the State Council Information Office.
The MAH system was implemented on a trial basis in selected regions in China from 2015 to July 2019 and was launched nationwide on Dec 1, 2019, after being endorsed by the Amended Drug Administration Law.
ByteDance announced on Thursday it has submitted applications to local authorities to determine whether the company is subject to the newly amended technology export catalog from China.
In May, the DOC amended a rule to target Huawei's acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain US software and technology.
On Dec 28, the nation adopted the revised securities law and amended new share sales arrangements to set the basis of registration-based reform across the whole A-share market step-by-step, with the ChiNext to be the next test board for the registration-based system.
A-share companies' increasing interest in issuing GDRs on European bourses is linked to benefits that can be derived from the amended GDR management regulations.
The regulator amended previous interim provisions on insurance asset management companies, adding a new chapter on corporate governance, highlighting risk management, optimizing requirements for such companies' equity structure design and operating principles, and adding regulatory measures and rule violation constraints.
The amended rules, which will come into force on Sept 1, will be conducive to further strengthening the independence of insurance asset managers, enhancing the level of their operations as market-oriented companies, increasing their professionalism and promoting them to achieve high-quality development, the CBIRC said.
The PBOC announced on Oct 23,2020 that it started soliciting public opinions on the draft amendments to this law, which was passed in 1995 and amended in 2003.
"It is expected that the law, once amended again by the legislature, will clarify the PBOC's duty in regulating and managing systemically important financial institutions and financial holding companies, said Yang Haiping, a researcher at the Central University of Finance and Economics' Institute of Securities and Futures.
The amended listing rules will take effect from Jan 1.
The relatively more eco-friendly low-sulfur fuel oil, which is mainly used in shipping, has gained in importance as the International Maritime Organization amended the regulations on air pollution caused by vessels in October 2016.
In practice, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could be amended to remove the requirement that the US stock-market regulator can inspect foreign accounting firms, and instead begin to accept the work of Chinese regulators as that of its own.
China has amended its regulations on the capital management of transnational companies, according to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
China raised the deduction baseline for personal income tax from 3,500 yuan to 5,000 yuan per month on Oct 1, and six categories of special deduction items, including children's education, continuing education, healthcare treatment for serious diseases, mortgage interest and rent, and senior care, took effect on Jan 1 this year, according to the Personal Income Tax Law amended on Aug 31.
Six categories of special individual income tax deductions will take effect along with the amended personal income tax law from Jan 1, 2019.
Treatment of the lump sum annual bonus as separate from other incomes, however, is not in line with the tax rules under the amended personal income tax law.
The CSRC immediately amended the trading suspension regulations, introducing stricter punishments.
Toward the end of last year, China amended the Law of Promoting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, to promote the development of SMEs through cost-cuts and creation of an ecosystem that is supportive of innovation.
Companies that endanger public health would be forced to delistThe China Securities Regulatory Commission announced it has amended the rules on the delisting criteria of A-share listed companies, and experts are saying this will improve governance and crack down on speculative activity.
Hong Hao, the chief strategist at BOCOM International Holdings Co, said that it was to crack down on speculative activities that the regulatory commission amended the delisting rules.
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange vowed on Sunday to strictly apply the amended and updated delisting rules.
China’s securities regulator released a statement Friday night on amended rules related to the criteria for delisting companies on its stock exchanges.
In the amended rules, companies whose activities harm national security, public safety or the public interest could be suspended or delisted.
He said the Hong Kong stock exchange has also amended its rules to allow companies with dual-class shareholding structures to apply for IPOs, an indication of its determination to attract unicorn companies.
CSRC has also released amended rules on initial public offerings (IPO) and a package of measures to support innovative firms in their domestic issuance of stocks or CDRs.
The idea is to make amends for the "regret" and enable mainland investors to trade their shares.
For instance, Japan amended its law last year to legalize virtual currencies like bitcoin as a payment method.
China has amended and improved its criminal laws, made a counterterrorism law, and upgraded the counterterrorism provisions of other relevant laws, according to the white paper, adding that this has strengthened systematic coordination among laws, closed legal loopholes, improved areas of weakness, and formed synergy in counterterrorism practice.
Latest legal amendment takes aim at acts of corruption in greater detail, scopePeople who offer bribes or damage the legitimate interests of private enterprises will face harsher punishment in line with an amended law, in China's latest step in strengthening the fight against corruption.
"These circumstances are specified in the amended law because bribe-giving and bribe-receiving are equally serious problems that must be solved in our long-term and systematic anti-corruption fight," the NPC Standing Committee's Legislative Affairs Commission said.
While suggesting judicial interpretations be formulated in a timely fashion to guarantee the accurate application of the amended Criminal Law, the commission also reminded law enforcement departments to fully consider a newly revised Company Law to ensure the unity of the two laws.
The amended law, which will take effect on March 1, has intensified the fight against bribe-givers, stating that those offering bribes repeatedly, to multiple people, or parties involved in major national projects should be harshly punished.
The amended law, passed at a session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, will take effect on Sept 5, 2024.
A total of 18 new or amended regulation frameworks are expected to be rolled out this year to fill in regulation gaps, according to the statement.
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee thoroughly reviewed the amended regulations during a meeting on Dec 8.
The Frontier Health and Quarantine Law took effect in 1987 and was amended in 2007, 2009 and 2018.
Xu said the NPC Standing Committee had formulated and amended 19 laws involving the environment and ecology over the past 10 years, bringing the total number of such laws to more than 30.
China will see more efficient procedures for handling foreign-related civil cases from the beginning of next year, thanks to a newly amended law.
For example, the newly amended law adds a provision that allows Chinese courts to deliver documents to litigants' sole proprietorship enterprises set up in China.
"The amended law will contribute to building a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized first-class business environment, and to helping modernize our national governance system and capability," she added.
Liang Ying, another official from the commission, said that this amended law has expanded the scope of administrative reconsideration, and also given people easier access to apply for reconsideration of administrative acts they believe are wrong.
Regarding administrative reconsideration as a key legal means to resolve disputes between residents and administrative bodies, he said that the amended law will also advance the country's building of law-based governance and promote justice and equity in society.
China's current Anti-Espionage Law took effect on July 1 after being amended, but some Western media outlets have recently expressed so-called concerns over the law, sensationalized its impact on the investment and business environment, and some even maliciously misinterpreted it as "encouraging citizens to spy on each other".
China's current Anti-Espionage Law took effect on July 1 after being amended, but some Western media outlets have recently expressed so-called "concerns" over the law, sensationalized its impact on investment and business environment, and some even maliciously misinterpreted it as "encouraging citizens to spy on each other".
"The soft punishment is not conducive to cutting off the chain of bribery, so the law needs to be amended by clarifying some serious circumstances of giving bribes," he said.
The rules were issued in 2012, when China amended its Criminal Procedure Law.
In response, the top legislature and judicial authorities amended the interpretation of the law to require enforcement departments to be more prudent in applying the charge.
In 2021, when the law was amended, legislators clarified that loan sharks will be convicted of illegally collecting debts, not provoking trouble, if they use violent means, or threaten, follow or harass others in their collections.
- The amendment to the charter of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the amended charter were released Saturday via Xinhua News Agency.
A comparison table of the original and amended versions of the charter was also released.
"In addition, we compiled the Civil Code and amended the Criminal Law to better safeguard civil rights of those engaged in new forms of business and to fight new types of online crimes," he added.
The amended law will come into effect on March 15.
The law was first adopted in 2000 and amended in 2015.
To that end, the amended Legislation Law adds a provision, "legislation should follow the new development philosophy and ensure that the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts should be advanced through a Chinese path to modernization," to its general provisions.
Observers say the amended law, which aims to improve the legislative system and mechanism to enhance the quality and efficiency of legislation, is expected to promote the country's high-quality development with high-quality legislation.
Whole-process people's democracyThe amended law enshrines in the general provisions that whole-process people's democracy should be upheld and developed.
The amendment is conducive to upholding the authority of the Constitution as well as the unity, sanctity and authority of the socialist legal system, said Li Jing, another NPC deputy who is also president of the Tianjin High People's Court, adding that the newly amended law will continuously improve the capacity and level of governance in accordance with the Constitution.
The work report said that the Law on International Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters was formulated and the Criminal Procedure Law was amended in the five-year period, providing the legal means for pursuing fugitives who had fled abroad and for recovering stolen State assets.
After years of efforts, the suggestion of constructing a quality tracing system for agricultural products in Song's proposal has been written into the amended Law on Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products, which took effect on Jan 1.
To tackle this issue and offer older people a better living environment, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, amended the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly in 2018.
Highlighting the importance of curbing the presence of invasive species, the amended law, which will come into effect on May 1, also states that wild animal species introduced from overseas must not be illegally released or abandoned.
Adopted in 1982, the law has been amended four times — the last time in 2017, three years before China announced its target to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and realize carbon neutrality before 2060.
It urgently needs to be amended," said Wang Hongyao, vice-chairman of the NPC Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, as he briefed the NPC Standing Committee on the amendment on Tuesday.
The law was last amended in 2017, one year before China announced its climate goals of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and realizing carbon neutrality before 2060.
This year, the legislature has formulated six new laws and amended nine others.
Over the past 10 years, China has enacted and amended over 30 laws and regulations that concern environmental protection, he added.
Revision to guarantee implementation of rules, remedy practical challengesA regulation on helping implement the Patent Law is being amended in an effort to improve the legal system and promote high-quality development in this regard, an official from China's top intellectual property regulator said.