China's NPC passes 15 laws, approves AI cooperation pact
China's top legislature concluded its 25th session, passing 15 laws including on prosecutorial public interest litigation, Antarctic activities and anti-cross-border corruption. President Xi Jinping signed corresponding orders. The session also approved an agreement to establish a World Artificial I
The 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee concluded its 25th session on the morning of 6 November at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The session voted to pass the Law on Prosecutorial Public Interest Litigation, the Law on Antarctic Activities and Environmental Protection, a newly revised Water Law, the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, and decisions to amend 15 laws including the Emergency Response Law. President Xi Jinping signed corresponding presidential orders. NPC Standing Committee Chairman Zhao Leji presided over the closing meeting.
The session also voted to approve a decision by the NPC Standing Committee to ratify the Agreement on the Establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation.
Following the closing meeting, the 25th special lecture was held, chaired by Zhao Leji. Gao Xiang, President and Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a lecture titled 'Thoroughly Study and Implement the Spirit of the Party's 20th Fifth Plenary Session and Persistently Advance Comprehensive Party Discipline'.