The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, during a session on Feb 24 adopted a decision on thoroughly banning the illegal trading of wildlife and eliminating the consumption of wild animals to safeguard people's lives and health.
The bureau fulfilled its judicial supervision duty in an online court hearing with the help of video communication technology.
Shenzhen, a coastal metropolis in South China's Guangdong province, adopted a law-based approach in its fight against COVID-19 from the beginning, ensuring the orderly implementation of all its epidemic prevention measures.
The National Office of Law Popularization recently kicked off a nationwide campaign to expand legal knowledge related to epidemic prevention and control.
Lawyers across China have been playing a critical role in ensuring that the ongoing epidemic prevention and control is carried out on a solid legal basis.
Political and legal units across China are ordered to properly handle illegal and criminal cases related to the ongoing epidemic of COVID-19 in accordance with the law.
A series of measures have been taken to enhance China's public legal services related to the outbreak of COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice recently opened a special column on three authoritative legal information websites to address the public's legal concerns over epidemic prevention and control measures.
Judicial administrative staff in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, are fighting the epidemic in numerous communities across the city, helping residents prevent and control the infectious disease.
President Xi Jinping on Feb 5 called for greater legislative, law enforcement, judicial and law observance efforts to strengthen the capacity to carry out law-based infection prevention and control.
The prevention and control measures of the epidemic shall be carried out in accordance with the law and in an orderly manner, an official from China's top legislature said on Feb 10.
Wang Chen, vice chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, Friday stressed law-based epidemic control work to provide legal support for winning the battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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