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1. Overview On 31 May, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment ("MEE") promulgated the Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Source Prevention and Control for Ecological Environment toward Construction Projects with High Energy Consumption and High Emission (《关于加强高耗能、高排放建设项目生态环境源头防控的指导意见》 in Chinese) (Guiding Opinions). As indicated by the title, the Guiding Opinions aims at raising the threshold for construction projects consuming hig...

中国颁布阻断立法应对外国法律不当域外实施 As the first departmental legislation of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) in 2021, Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures (Blocking Rules) were published with immediate effect beginning Jan. 9, 2021. Given the trade, technology, and even diplomacy tensions between the United States and China, a series of legislations were promulgated starting in the second half of 2020. ...

To the Board of Directors of China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited We have been engaged by the Board of Directors of China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited (the "Company") to perform a limited assurance engagement in relation to the selected data listed below and identified with an asterisk [*] on page 77 to 79 (the "Selected Sustainability Information") in the Companys Sustainability Report for the year ended 31 December 2020 (the "2020 Sustai...

No. 1 in Fujian! RMB 880 Million of Import and Export of Agricultural and Fishery Products at Pingtan Port in 2020 On February 9, according to Pingtan Customs, the import and export value of aquatic products, fruits and other agricultural and fishery products in Pingtan in 2020 reached RMB 880 million, ranking the first in Fujian, with a year-on-year growth of 31.52%. In May 2019, the Experimental Area formulated the Measures on Encouraging the Import of Agricultural and Fishery Products in Tai...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After extensive public consultation, the Administrative Measures for Trading of Carbon Emission Rights (for Trial Implementation) (《碳排放权交易管理办法（试行）》in Chinese) (Administrative Measures) were officially promulgated by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) on January 5, 2021. Serving as a part of Beijing’s agenda to establish the national ETS for the trading of carbon emission rights (national ET...

Xiaoling Duan On 17 October 2020 China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, passed the fourth round of amendments to the Patent Law, which will come into effect on 1 June 2021. It has been eight years since the first draft was released to solicit public opinions. This latest set of changes updates China’s patent regime in the following ways. Civil litigation Article 71 introduces a punitive damages regime in the context of wilf...

Richard Freeman, Xiaoying Li The growth of insecure or precarious work has been well-documented, and the OECD notes that “the rights and protections of vulnerable workers falling outside the traditional remit of labour law and social protection should be strengthened” (OECD 2019: 15). Some commentators also note that trade unions play a useful role in reducing worker exploitation and counteracting the monopoly power of the firm (McNicholas et al. 2020). While examples of precarious work can...