On May 14, 2025, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China released its annual Legislative Work Plan for 2025. According to the plan, the State Council’s legislative priorities this year are to coordinate the advancement of domestic and foreign-related rule of law, deepen reforms in the field of legislation, strengthen government legislative review, uphold a balanced approach of enacting, amending, repealing, and interpreting laws, and enhance legislation in key areas, emerging fields, and foreign-related domains.

SESEC has extracted several noteworthy items among about 200 from the 2025 work plan:

First, State Council has proposed drafting and revision projects for the following laws:

  • The Revision of Metrology Law,
  • The Revision of Electricity Law
  • The Revision of Transportation Law
  • New Draft of Railway Law
  • The Revision of Highway Law and
  • The Revision of Law on Lawyers

In addition, the State Council has proposed preparation projects to develop the following regulations:

  • Regulationson the Management of the Motor Vehicle Production Admission
  • Regulationson Road Transport
  • Administrative Measures for Internet Information Services
  • Regulationson the Protection of Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuit
  • Regulationson the Graded Protection of Cybersecurity
  • Regulationson the Management of the Direct Satellite Services for Terminal Equipment
  • Regulationson Satellite Navigation
  • Regulationson the Safety Supervision of Special Equipment

Notably absent from the State Council’s plan is the Product Quality Law, which has been under active discussion for revision since 2022. The draft for public comments were released in 2023 and SAMR has also listed the revision of Product Quality Law in its 2025 legislative work plan. SESEC has been tracking its progress since the beginning.

However, it is commented by some SAMR insiders that some parts of the revision still need further verification of their feasibility, and the overall maturity and completeness of the draft are not yet sufficient, therefore causing the long overdue of the final release and it is even deleted from this year’s state council legislative plan. SESEC assesses that a new round of revision for the Quality Product Law is unlikely in the short term.