• The Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China was adopted and gazetted on 20^th August 2021 and will come into force on 1^st November 2021. This is a major improvement of China's legal system, which fully respects and protects citizens' personal information.
• The Safety Regulations on Dust Explosion Prevention in Industrial and Trade Enterprises was adopted and promulgated by the Ministry of Emergency Management of PRC and has come into force on 1^st September 2021. It is of great significance to promote industrial and trade enterprises to implement the main responsibility of dust explosion prevention safety, standardize and strengthen safety supervision and law enforcement, and prevent and reduce dust explosion accidents.

• Opinions on Further Improving Supervision Working Mechanism for “Three  Simultaneous” of Construction Project Environmental Protection and Completion Autonomous Acceptance Check of Environmental Protection has been gazetted by General Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, aims to deepen the reform of “Simplification, Supervision, Service” in environment field, strengthen entire process supervision on construction project, straighten out supervision responsibilities of ecology environment departments at all levels, and implement the subject responsibility of construction entity for ecological and environmental protection.
• Updated Minimum Wage Standard of Jiangsu Province, Gansu Province, Shanxi Province and Shandong Province.

Ethics
< Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China >

Health and Safety
< Safety Regulations on Dust Explosion Prevention in Industrial and Trade Enterprises >

Environment
< Opinions on Further Improving Supervision Working Mechanism for “Three Simultaneous” of Construction Project Environmental Protection and Completion Autonomous Acceptance Check of Environmental Protection >

Minimum Wage Standard Update
Jiangsu Province, Gansu Province, Shanxi Province and Shandong Province

Ethics
1. < Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China> (2021-11-01)
The Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Protection Law) was adopted and gazetted on 20^th August 2021 and will come into force as of 1^st November 2021.
The Protection Law has 8 chapters with 74 articles. On the basis of relevant laws, the law further refines and improves the principles and rules for personal information protection, defines the boundaries of rights and obligations in personal information processing activities, and improves the working system and mechanism of personal information protection. It has the following highlights:

• Establish the principle of personal information protection
• Standardize handling activities and protect personal rights and interests
• Prohibit "big data discriminatory pricing" to standardize automatic decision-making
• Strictly protect sensitive personal information
• Regulate the handling activities of state organs
• Give individuals full rights
• Strengthen the obligations of personal information processors
• Regulate special obligations to large network platforms
• Regulate the cross-border flow of personal information
• Improve the working mechanism of personal information protection

It is recommended that enterprises may establish and implement measures of personal information protection from the following aspects:

• Strengthen the compliance construction of personal information within the enterprise
• Establish and improve the personal information protection system within the enterprise
• Formulate refined control measures for personal information
• Strengthen the management of scenarios where personal information and data are easy to be leaked
• Regularly conduct risk assessment on sensitive data such as personal information

Health and Safety
1. < Safety Regulations on Dust Explosion Prevention in Industrial and Trade Enterprises > (2021-09-01)
The Safety Regulations on Dust Explosion Prevention in Industrial and Trade Enterprises (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations) was deliberated and adopted at the 35^th ministerial meeting of the Ministry of Emergency Management of PRC, it and has come into force as of 1^st September 2021. The main contents of the Regulations are as follows:
1. The Regulations further tamp the main responsibility of safety production for enterprises involving dust explosion, and further standardize and strengthen the supervision and law enforcement of dust explosion prevention safety in industrial and trade enterprises.
2. The Regulations put forward clear requirements such as safety management system, education and training, labor protection supplies, emergency rescue plan and drill, risk identification and hidden danger investigation, and "three Simultaneities" of safety facilities.
3. The Regulations specify that safety equipment such as explosion venting, explosion isolation, explosion suppression, inerting, gas locking and ash unloading, impurity removal, monitoring, alarm, spark detection and elimination shall meet the standard requirements and ensure normal operation.
4. In terms of dust cleaning and disposal, the Regulations specify the minimum requirements of "cleaning per shift" in the dust operation area. For the disposal of aluminum, magnesium and other metal dust and magnesium alloy waste, it is required to avoid bulk deposition of dust and waste or multi-layer stacking after bagging. If temporary storage is a must, it shall be far away from the assembly occupancies such as operation site, and adopt necessary fire and explosion-proof measures such as waterproof and moisture-proof, ventilation and hydrogen monitoring.

Environment
1. < Opinions on Further Improving Supervision Working Mechanism for “Three Simultaneous” of Construction Project Environmental Protection and Completion Autonomous Acceptance Check of Environmental Protection > (2021-08-23)
The Opinions on Further Improving Supervision Working Mechanism for “Three Simultaneous” of Construction Project Environmental Protection and Completion Autonomous Acceptance Check of Environmental Protection (hereinafter referred to as Opinions) has been gazetted by General Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on 23^rd August 2021. The main contents are as follows:
1. Strictly implement territorial supervision responsibility

• Establish territorial participation at beforehand mechanism
• Strengthen territorial supervision responsibility on the process and afterward

2. Practically standardize onsite supervision contents

• Focus on the key points of "three Simultaneities" supervision
• Unify contents of autonomous acceptance check

3. Continuously improve supervision manner

• Optimize information sharing mechanism
• Refine public participation mechanism
• Explore third party auxiliary law enforcement mechanism
• Supported by the informatization platform

4. Continuously intensify punishment and supervision

• Impose punishment according to laws and regulations
• Intensify supervision to government
• Strengthen random inspection on key project

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