Guangdong province has taken a pioneering step in ensuring gender equality in the digital field with the recent adoption of revised measures for women's rights protection.
Improving income, healthcare, elderly care and education are top priorities among the suggestions raised by Shanghai Municipal People's Congress delegates for the city's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), according to recently collected survey results.
Gansu province has enacted legislation mandating a female-to-male restroom ratio of no less than 2-to-1 in high-traffic areas, setting a pioneering standard for urban planning in China.
To facilitate the city's green and low-carbon transition and bamboo industry development, the standing committee of the Yibin people's congress issued a decision in October. It encourages Party and government agencies, State-owned enterprises and public institutes across the city to take the lead in purchasing and using bamboo products.
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will implement two new local regulations on July 1 aimed at boosting economic development and expanding regional openness. One of the regulations is China's first local legislation to specifically focus on port economic development.
Relic-rich Shanxi province becomes the first provincial-level region to establish locally specialized rule to better protect its cultural heritage through legislation, after the amended Cultural Relics Protection Law was put into effect in March.
A total of 323 prefecture-level cities in China with local legislative power have enacted more than 5,000 new regulations over the past decade, according to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
According to local authorities, the nine plateau lakes have a combined basin area of 8,110 square kilometers and support over 7 million people. They serve as the region's vital ecological and life-sustaining systems.