Twenty draft laws and law amendments are to be discussed this year:
February: Employment promotion law
March: Property law; corporate income tax law
April: Labor dispute arbitration law; town and country planning law
June: Labor contract law; amendment to the Energy Saving Law; amendment to the Lawyer Law; amendment to the Civil Procedure Law
August: Circular economy law; 7th amendment to the Criminal Law; amendment to the Law on Science and Technology Progress
October: Illegal acts corrective law; amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law
December: Social insurance law; amendment to the Food Safety Law
The draft emergency response law, administrative mandatory law, anti-drug law and anti-monopoly law will also be discussed this year, but no specific schedule is presently available.
(China Daily March 1, 2007)