NPC Calendar: March 2025
A preview of China's national legislature's 2025 session
Welcome back to NPC Observer Monthly, a (mostly) monthly newsletter about China’s national legislature: the National People’s Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee (NPCSC).
In five days, the NPC will convene for its 2025 session. This year, I’ll again crosspost our coverage of the annual NPC session to this Substack, starting with the NPC Calendar for March, which functions as a preview of the session before its agenda and daily schedule are finalized on March 4. If you’d like to avoid duplicate emails, please head over to the settings for this newsletter and deselect “NPC Observer Crossposts.“
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[The following post was originally published on NPC Observer]
The revised Cultural Relics Protection Law [文物保护法] (adopted on Nov. 8, 2024) takes effect on March 1.
China’s 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) will convene for its third session on Wednesday, March 5. The session’s tentative agenda includes the following items:
Deliberate the Government Work Report;
Deliberate work reports by the NPC Standing Committee, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate;
Review a report on the implementation of the 2024 Plan for National Economic and Social Development and on the draft 2025 Plan for National Economic and Social Development; and review the draft 2025 Plan for National Economic and Social Development;
Review a report on the execution of the 2024 Central and Local Budgets and on the draft 2025 Central and Local Budgets; and review the draft 2025 Central and Local Budgets; and
Deliberate a draft amendment to the Law on the Delegates to the National People’s Congress and Local People’s Congresses [全国人民代表大会和地方各级人民代表大会代表法].
On March 4, the NPC session will convene for a preparatory meeting to select members of the Presidium (an ad hoc body of around 180 members that will preside over the session) and to finalize the session’s agenda. The Presidium will then immediately meet to decide on the session’s daily schedule and designate a spokesperson. Shortly thereafter the session is expected to hold its first press conference.
The NPC’s 2025 session will likely close on March 11, based on a recent notice from the Beijing police on controlling the use of certain low-flying aircraft during the event. All reports and bills submitted for review are expected to be approved on the last day.
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