We began to draft
legislation.
我们开始起草法规。
In general, Parliament has the
legislation.
一般情况下，议会有立法权力。
The new
legislation was passed with overwhelming support in Congress.
新法规在国会中获得了压倒性的支持得以通过。
The government introduced a groundbreaking piece of
legislation to combat climate change.
政府提出了一项创新性的立法来对抗气候变化。
The
legislation aims to improve healthcare access for all citizens.
这项立法旨在改善所有公民的医疗保健服务。
The Supreme Court ruled the
legislation unconstitutional, striking down several key provisions.
最高法院裁定该立法违宪，废除了几个关键条款。
The
legislation requires companies to disclose their carbon emissions publicly.
该法规要求企业公开其碳排放数据。
The
legislation provides financial assistance to small businesses affected by the pandemic.
该立法为受疫情影响的小企业提供财政援助。
The bill is currently under review by the Senate Judiciary Committee before being sent to the full chamber.
该法案正在参议院司法委员会审议，随后将提交全体会议。
Proponents argue that this
legislation will promote equality and protect workers' rights.
支持者认为这项立法将促进平等并保护劳动者权益。
Critics argue that the proposed
legislation lacks sufficient provisions for environmental protection.
批评者认为该提案中的环保条款不足。
The
legislation has sparked heated debates among lawmakers and the public alike.
这项立法引发了立法者和公众的激烈争论。
Li said infrastructure development of EV battery-switch stations can catch up through legislation and policy initiatives that clarify and support their setup.
李表示，电动汽车电池开关站的基础设施发展可以通过立法和政策举措来加快步伐，明确并支持其建设。
China's legislation and enforcement of environmental protection are as strict as those of the European Union at this time.
当前中国在环境保护方面的立法和执法力度与欧盟一样严格。
"The US would be wise to spend more time developing legislation and standards for how all companies, regardless of country of origin, protect online privacy and secure data," she said.
A report from Xinhuanet, which quoted US media, said that the US Senate had passed a legislation in May that could ban many Chinese companies from listing shares on US exchanges or raising money from US investors without adhering to the US government's regulatory and audit standards.
It is unwarranted for the US government to come up with a legislation against Chinese companies.
Zhang Boli, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said the major problem in internationalizing TCM lies in legislation, as introducing TCM into local markets requires a country to amend its own codes, which is very difficult.
A proposed legislation passed by the US Senate last month, requiring companies to certify that they are not owned or controlled by a foreign government, is set to spearhead a fresh wave of listing comebacks by Chinese mainland firms.
A proposed legislation passed by the US Senate, requiring companies to certify that they are not owned or controlled by a foreign government, will prompt more US-listed Chinese companies to pursue relistings in the domestic market, analysts said.
The city also will collaborate on applications for permission to conduct test flights, in accordance with Spanish and European legislation, and will coordinate with EHang in the planning of flight routes.
According to legislation, Uber now has 21 days to appeal, during which it can continue to operate until any appeal processes have been exhausted or withdrawn.
Dong said more efforts are needed to build an open and unified information service platform, break down the information barriers between different government departments, deepen the cooperation between financial institutions on setting up uniform standards and integrating internal data resources, carry out cross-industry cooperation and make steady progress in legislation on information protection.
In March, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts put in her campaign platform a pledge to introduce legislation targeting tech companies with annual revenue of $25 billion or more with more regulation.
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.
In terms of legislation, there are some rules that are not ideal for foreign companies, such as the current bidding policies.
In June 2017, Qinghai province in western China recognized that energy storage can play a role in reducing curtailment and proposed new legislation that would mandate the use of energy storage systems with new wind turbine installations.
In the fourth quarter of last year, the company had a charge of $2.4 billion, like many other US companies did, as the new tax reform legislation in the US took effect.
Legislators in the state of Quintana Roo, home to tourist destination Cancun, proposed legislation that would ban cash fares, which Uber views as a critical tool to reach users in emerging markets.
The legislation, which limits stays to 180 nights a year and requires providers to register with local governments, will take effect next year.
UK legislation stipulates that, starting Jan 1, 2018, all new London black cabs will need to be battery-powered.
To help solve its climate change and emissions issues, China has issued strict regulations and proposed radical amendments to emissions legislation which have resulted in a boost to electric vehicle (EV) manufacture and sales.
Recent UK legislation stipulates that all new London black cabs must be battery powered starting Jan 1, 2018.
China does not have such legislation now, and we are actively fighting for it," said Pan Zengyou, director of the Child Passenger Safety Promotion Office.
"We should focus on legislation that targets telecom fraud and phone call harassment and act vigorously against crime," he said.
"While enterprises actively engage in IP investment, the Chinese government has been steadfastly fortifying IP legislation, amending patent laws, and rigorously penalizing illicit activities such as patent infringement.
The case focuses on the chain, digitization and intensive development of the yacht industry of Sanya, which is the first city in the country to carry out local legislation on water tourism.
"It is necessary to promptly draft and enact a law to promote the development of the private sector, providing stable and reliable legal support," he said, adding he expects to see new progress in efforts for the relevant legislation this year.
In addition to lacking investment and financing experience, domestic entities have a limited awareness of the legislation governing foreign financial markets.
"For some Chinese business owners, they may still want to wait and see if the Chinese government develops its own set of standards and if relevant legislation will take a few more years to come," Aeby said.
Experts and scholars gave keynote presentations on topics such as the green development of the Yangtze River Basin and the Mississippi River Basin, and legislation regarding the development of the Yangtze River Basin.
Besides environmental protection, Chen also suggested creating more cooperation opportunities in education, sports, culture, sports, economy, and trade, as well as local legislation.
The report suggested that, based on the experiences of different countries around the world, it is necessary for China to enact special legislation to establish rural financial institutions with dual objectives of social responsibilities and commercial values, and to provide clear regulations for these institutions regarding their objectives, business models and regulatory patterns that are different from those of other commercial banks.
Waleed Gaballah, a member of the Egyptian Association for Political Economy, Statistics, and Legislation, told Xinhua that "the great demand from countries to join the bank, the financing packages it has provided, and the development projects it has funded are the greatest indications of the AIIB's success achieved in just a few years.
China faces the same challenges as other countries, yet its long-term economic growth is not affected by the challenges, said Gaballah, a member of the Egyptian Association for Political Economy, Statistics and Legislation.
In recent years, it has strengthened legislation to tackle dishonest business practices and unfair competition, while utilizing AI to reduce administrative intervention and establishing pilot projects to better protect intellectual property.
In recent years, it has strengthened legislation to tackle dishonest business practices and unfair competition, while utilizing AI to reduce administrative intervention, and establishing pilot projects to better protect intellectual property.
xa0The legislation, "Ending China's Developing Nation Status Act", was passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, and would require the Secretary of State to pursue changing China's status as a developing nation in international organizations.
The program, in turn, will have a profound impact on the manufacturing of exports in China, promoting the improvement of China's circular economy standard legislation and management system.
On March 27, the US House of Representatives unanimously approved draft legislation requiring the US Department of State to change China's status as a "developing country" in international organizations where the United States participates or is part of, and to modify China's relevant status to a "developed country".
Wu said that speeding up the restructuring of the real estate industry and providing liquidity support to smaller banks that are under stress would be particularly helpful, and called for efforts to boost the funding for deposit insurance and improve relevant legislation and regulations.
Pi Jianlong, a member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and head of the Beijing Jintai Law Firm, said: "There are certain deficiencies in the protection and support of the private economy in the current laws, especially a lack of legislation for the development and protection of private enterprises.
"Such legislation would offer institutional guarantees for the private sector and greatly boost the confidence of private entrepreneurs to boldly go after business in the years to come," he said.
Pi Jianlong, a CPPCC National Committee member and head of Beijing Jintai Law Firm, said: "There are certain deficiencies in the protection and support of the private sector economy in current laws, especially a lack of legislation.
According to a previous report by China's Caijing Magazine, Li summarized his major achievements in participating in China's policymaking on four fronts: participating in legislation, promoting reform of China's stock market, poverty alleviation and encouraging growth of private business.
Jiang Chenghua, head of the bureau of industrial safety and import and export control, the Ministry of Commerce, said the legislation process of the draft regulations on export control of dual-use items, which were released by the ministry in April 2022 to seek public opinion, has been accelerated, while the country's export control list is also under constant improvement.
Over the past year and a half, Shanghai's legislators, both at the municipal and the district level, have worked closely to ensure efficient and quality legislation, according to Yan Jie, director of the legal work committee of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai People's Congress.
"The biggest role of legislation for Pudong New Area is to address some of the sticking points or bottlenecks in our current laws and regulations," said Liu Yuqing, deputy director of the Pudong New Area People's Congress Standing Committee.
The Shanghai legislature will continue to improve the quality and efficiency of Pudong New Area's legislation, and provide a more powerful rule of law for its high-level reform and opening-up, according to Yan.
"We will strengthen forward-looking planning and overall layout, expand the participation of grassroots legislative contact points, market players and other sectors of society in the legislation," Yan said.
"We'll work hard to ensure the institutional innovation advantages of Pudong New Area legislation are transformed into high-quality development. "
The official attributed the high level of satisfaction to stronger legislation, more effective law enforcement and more efficient IP examination.
China has denounced the legislation as a bullying practice, which seriously undermines market principles, violates the World Trade Organization rules, shakes the stability of the global industrial and supply chains, and inevitably harms the interests of global consumers.
Chang Zhenting, secretary-general of the Autonomous Driving Industry Alliance for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, said by including self-driving cars in legislation, Shenzhen is pioneering legal efforts in China to accelerate the commercialization of autonomous vehicles, while ensuring public safety.
"We are also working on a local legislation to serve the CIIE better, so as to further expand the influence of the expo," Zhou said.
Some media reports said the US Congress is pressing ahead with a legislation that could rewrite the rules for US companies investing abroad, proposing the screening of investments in countries like China seen as adversaries.
- Since the implementation of the Hainan free trade port (FTP) law on June 10, 2021, Hainan has issued 17 related regulations, with the new law speeding up local legislation to guarantee better development and wider opening-up of the Hainan FTP.
The Hainan FTP law requires more foreign-related content to be reflected in the process of implementation, especially speeding up supporting legislation to ensure high-level opening-up, said Chi Fulin, head of the Hainan-based China Institute for Reform and Development.
As supporting legislation of Hainan FTP law, the IPR protection regulation, which went into effect on Jan 1 this year, provided the legal basis for Hainan to build a world-class IPR highland, said Xia Junli, head of the Hainan Free Trade Port Intellectual Property Court.
"Compared with other pilot cities, Shenzhen's status as a special economic zone means that it has the power of legislation.
China's Arbitration Law, which came into force on Sept 1, 1995, is being discussed by the public after the Ministry of Justice presented a draft revision to the legislation for public consultation on July 30, 2021 in order to update the basic framework and bring it more closely in line with well-recognized international practice.
While breakthroughs in legislation to govern auctions of cultural relics and artworks can be anticipated in Pudong, an international cultural relics and artworks trading center will be built in the area, said Huang.
They also include enhancing legislation and law enforcement for intellectual property rights protections, strengthening research and development of key products and core technologies, and encouraging central, western and northeastern regions to ramp up efforts in undertaking industrial transfers.
RCEP member economies should strengthen legislation and law enforcement regarding equal market entry, fair competition, intellectual property protection and transparency in regulation to form a unified regional market, Chi said.
The outline said that efforts will be made to strengthen legislation concerning intellectual property rights like patents and trademarks to promote innovation-driven development.
Wei said China not only has made big progress in enhancing legislation and policy measures to improve its business environment, but also has been strictly implementing laws and policies to provide effective services and facilitation for enterprises to grow.
"It is also in line with the country's recent efforts in pushing forward related legislation, such as amendments to its Anti-monopoly Law, and law enforcement to boost supervision over antitrust issues.
He also pledged to help core technologies transform into real productive forces and explore how to protect digital IPR through legislation.
The move aims to advance property tax legislation and reform in an active and prudent manner, guide rational housing consumption and the economical and intensive use of land resources, and facilitate the steady and sound development of the country's property market, according to the decision.
The program will advance property tax legislation and reform in an active and prudent way.
Information and experiences from the pilot program will play a key role in drawing up national property tax legislation.
The State Council will decide on the list of pilot areas under the principle of promoting unified legislation and advancing the steady and sound development of the property market.
The move aims to advance the property tax legislation and reform in an active and prudent way, guide the rational housing consumption and the economical and intensive use of land resources, and facilitate the steady and sound development of the country's property market, according to the decision.
The State Council will decide on the list of pilot areas after considering issues such as stepping up the pilot program, promoting unified legislation and advancing the steady and sound development of the property market.
He said the administration will help accelerate the revision of the anti-monopoly law, revise the anti-unfair competition law in a timely manner, and continuously improve the supporting legislation,The SAMR will also constantly improve the following: the market access system; the fair competition review mechanism; the digital economy fair competition supervision system; and the system to prevent and stop the abuse of administrative power.
"Apart from better legislation and implementation of laws and regulations, it is also important to enhance construction of related platforms, coordinate policies from different government departments, and promote the free flow of production factors," Zhou said.
And this requires us, in the process of production, to enhance protection of labor and help improve relative legislation.
It's worth noting that now as tertiary distribution has again been highlighted, it can be anticipated that relative policy and incentive systems and legislation will be refined and improved.
The white paper also indicated that as of April, 33 countries and regions had enacted or proposed climate legislation, or issued relevant policy documents, accounting for 66 percent of total global emissions.
As more countries that emit high levels of carbon dioxide accelerate their legislation and policy making processes, around 75 percent of global emissions could be governed by strict regulations by 2025, the paper said.
It said the draft Regulation failed to provide legal certainty to the companies which might be affected by this new legislation, as many "key concepts and legal standards/thresholds remain ambiguous.
"Shenzhen now guarantees basic scientific research investment through local legislation, which is its unique advantage," Hu said.
Experts from Fitch Ratings, however, point out that there is no guarantee a global minimum tax will become law in the US or any other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member, given the large number of countries where passage of new legislation would be required and weak bipartisan support for higher taxes in the US.
Liu's article indicated that the central government will retain the rights of unified legislation and tax collection, while provincial-level governments may get some leeway in tax administration through legislation and delegation.
The government will "actively and steadily promote the legislation and reform of property tax", said Liu, adding that it would improve the tax system of local governments and help cultivate local tax sources.
Experts in this field believe that on the basis of accelerating the comprehensive expansion of international anti-money laundering and counter financial terrorism legislation, China needs to strengthen its international cooperation, which includes the anti-money laundering and counter financial terrorism judiciary assistance system, financial intelligence exchanges, cooperation mechanism and networks.
"As more stringent legislation and tighter scrutiny and regulations were put in place at home, an uptick in consumer confidence was evident," said Wu Zhirui, a new mother based in the city of Shaoyang, Central China's Hunan province.
The US administration is expected to implement the stimulus plan in the coming weeks following Thursday's signing of the legislation, which will include $1,400 direct payments to individual US taxpayers to promote consumer spending, an increase in unemployment insurance supplements and funds for vaccine distribution.
Xi also stressed legislation on geographical indications and business secrets, calling for research and a draft of IP-related lawsuit specifications, noting that criminal and administrative punishments for IPR violators should be intensified.
Deputy Li Xiangnong, who is also a lawyer, said Shanghai should follow the national legislation on the protection of personal information, which was implemented in October.
- A legislative advisory committee has been established in Haikou, the capital of South China's Hainan province, to improve legislation pertinent to the province's construction of a free trade port.
It aims to provide intellectual support for the port's legal system and improve the legislation's efficiency.
Order of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of ChinaThe Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extra-territorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures, approved by the State Council, are hereby promulgated and shall be effective as of the date of the promulgation.
Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extra-territorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other MeasuresArticle 1 These Rules are formulated in accordance with the National Security Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant laws, for the purpose of counteracting the impact on China caused by unjustified extra-territorial application of foreign legislation and other measures, safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations of China.
Article 2 These Rules apply to situations where the extra-territorial application of foreign legislation and other measures, in violation of international law and the basic principles of international relations, unjustifiably prohibits or restricts the citizens, legal persons or other organizations of China from engaging in normal economic, trade and related activities with a third State (or region) or its citizens, legal persons or other organizations.
Article 4 The State shall establish a working mechanism composed of relevant central departments (hereinafter referred to as "the working mechanism"), to take charge of counteracting unjustified extra-territorial application of foreign legislation and other measures.
Article 5 Where a citizen, legal person or other organization of China is prohibited or restricted by foreign legislation and other measures from engaging in normal economic, trade and related activities with a third State (or region) or its citizens, legal persons or other organizations, he/it shall truthfully report such matters to the competent department of commerce of the State Council within 30 days.
Article 6 When assessing and determining whether there exists unjustified extra-territorial application of foreign legislation and other measures, the working mechanism shall take the following factors into overall account:(1) whether international law or the basic principles of international relations are violated;(2) potential impact on China's national sovereignty, security and development interests;(3) potential impact on the legitimate rights and interests of the citizens, legal persons or other organizations of China;(4) other factors that shall be taken into account.
Article 7 Where the working mechanism, upon assessment, confirms that there exists unjustified extra-territorial application of foreign legislation and other measures, it may decide that the competent department of commerce of the State Council shall issue a prohibition order to the effect that, the relevant foreign legislation and other measures are not accepted, executed, or observed (hereinafter referred to as "prohibition order").
Article 9 Where a person complies with the foreign legislation and other measures within the scope of a prohibition order, and thus infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of a citizen, legal person or other organization of China, the latter may, in accordance with law, institute legal proceedings in a people's court, and claim for compensation by the person; except where the former person is granted exemption in accordance with Article 8 of these Rules.
Where a judgment or ruling made in accordance with the foreign legislation within the scope of the prohibition order causes losses to a citizen, legal person or other organization of China, the latter may, in accordance with law, institute legal proceedings in a people's court, and claim for compensation by the person who benefits from the said judgment or ruling.
Article 10 Members of the working mechanism shall, in accordance with their respective functions and duties, provide guidance and service for the citizens, legal persons or other organizations of China in response to unjustified extra-territorial application of foreign legislation and other measures.