NPC 2024: Documents and Votes

Reports, legislation, and more.

Welcome back to a special issue of NPC Observer Monthly, a (mostly) monthly newsletter about China’s national legislature: the National People’s Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee (NPCSC).

This post concludes our coverage of the NPC’s 2024 session and crossposting of said coverage to this Substack. I’ll be back in your inbox to recap March in a few weeks.

Until then, happy reading! —Changhao

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NPC delegates reading the Government Work Report at the 2024 NPC session on March 5, 2024. Photo by Xinhua.

[The following post was first published on NPC Observer]

The second session of China's 14^th National People's Congress (NPC) concluded on Monday, March 11. Below we have compiled a list of all official documents from this session (except for two legislative documents the NPC has so far neglected to release). We have also linked to the submitted (i.e., draft) version of six main reports for your reference. Unless otherwise noted, the documents are available in Chinese only. The vote results for each bill and resolution are listed below in brackets, in the order of yea–nay–abstention.

Work Reports

State Council (i.e., the Government Work Report)

• Approved version: zh | en

• Submitted version: zh | en

• Approval resolution [2895–2–3]

NPC Standing Committee

• Approved version: zh | en

• Submitted version: zh | en

• Approval resolution [2888–7–5]

Supreme People’s Court

• Approved version

• Submitted version

• Approval resolution [2834–44–22]

Supreme People’s Procuratorate

• Approved version

• Submitted version

• Approval resolution [2864–27–9]

State Council Organic Law Revision

• Full text of the Law as revised: zh | en [2883–8–9]

• Explanation

• NPC Constitutional and Law Committee report on results of deliberations

• NPC Constitution and Law Committee report on suggestions for revisions (pending)*

• Presidential order

* We will update this post once this document is posted online or published in the next issue of the NPCSC Gazette.

National Economic and Social Development Plans

• National Development and Reform Commission report

  • Approved version: zh | en

  • Submitted version: zh | en

• NPC Financial and Economic Affairs Committee’s review report

• Approval resolution [2879–10–11]

Central and Local Budgets

• Ministry of Finance report

  • Approved version: zh | en

  • Submitted version: zh | en

• NPC Financial and Economic Affairs Committee’s review report

• Approval resolution [2876–13–11]

Other

• Secretariat report on the disposition of bills submitted by the delegates

• Speech by Zhao Leji