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State Council revises regulatory rulemaking rulebook to speed up regulatory pipeline

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China's rulemaking machine is about to step up a gear or two. On May 19, the State Council released revised Regulations on the Procedure for Formulating Administrative Regulations. The revised rules require the accelerated formulation of urgently needed, narrow-in-scope, non-controversial regul...



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