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An interpretation of the National People's Congress Report: Amendment of Contract Law & Land Management Law this year [China]
[Title and summary translation from original Chinese provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre] In the 11th National People's Congress, Chairman of Committee Wu Bangguo said the laws have adapt to address needs arising from economic and social development. The Labour Contract Law and the Land Management Law will be amended. Xiao Mingzheng [Administrative Department Head of School of Government, Peking University] expects that the modifications of the Labour Contract Law will be slightly inclined to favour workers. He believes these amendments will be used to resolve issues related to employment discrimination that women and disabled people face. Yang Chongguang [Chief Economist of the Ministry of Land and Resources Law Centre] said the biggest problem with land is that collective land property rights have not been clearly defined. In order to protect the interests of farmers, apart from levying, market-oriented means of rural land circulation should also be allowed. If a hotel is to be built on a farmland, it should be regarded as commercial land rather than public land, and the government has no rights to levy it. Instead, the process should involve negotiations between the land acquirer and the farmers, with the farmers earning a certain amount of profit. The new Land Management Law also needs raise the standards for compensation.