The community-level approach to addressing people's needs has been assisted by the establishment of a station for local people's congress deputies to better communicate with local people to solve their problems.
Shanghai has become the first city in China to legislate against light pollution, and with the newly revised municipal environmental protection regulation taking effect on Monday, offenders will face fines up to 50,000 yuan ($7,400).
The country's first provincial-level regulation to strengthen the management of a city's skyline took effect in late July in the municipality of Tianjin, said its legislature.
Beijing's legislature has passed a new regulation on work safety, which will come into effect on Aug 1 and aims to strengthen safety management in emerging businesses.
A draft regulation on prevention and control of soil pollution was submitted to the 39th session of the Standing Committee of the 15th Beijing Municipal People's Congress for review on May 25.
A decision has been passed in Shanghai that forbids employers to lay off employees or refuse job seekers because of their previous contagious disease infection history, the city legislature announced on Thursday.
Residents in Jinan, capital of Shandong province, have been given easier access to legislators and are asking them to help solve problems, thanks to the establishment of grassroots-level stations and an online platform.
At the Central Conference on the Work of People's Congresses held in Beijing on October 13-14, 2021, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he explained the main ideas of whole-process people's democracy and the defining features of contemporary Chinese democracy.