Cctv news(Reporter Xu Yeqing): More comprehensive, safer, stricter and more favorable … … From digital safety and production safety to education and house purchase, a number of new regulations will be formally implemented from September, which will affect people’s lives.
More comprehensive! "Zero tolerance" for bullying and sexual assault of students.
In order to implement the newly revised Law on the Protection of Minors, the Ministry of Education promulgated the Regulations on the Protection of Minors’ Schools on June 1, 2021, which came into effect on September 1.
The "Regulations" clarify the concept of student bullying, require schools to regularly carry out special investigations on the prevention and control of bullying for all students, evaluate whether bullying exists in schools, and summarize five types of bullying behaviors, such as physical aggression, insulting personality, property infringement, malicious exclusion, online defamation or spreading privacy. In addition, relevant prevention mechanisms such as intervention and suppression have been established.
At the same time, in view of individual faculty members’ sexual harassment and sexual assault on students, the Regulations include the prevention and treatment of sexual assault and sexual harassment in special protection, requiring schools to establish and improve the code of conduct for faculty and students, the regulations on the safety management of student dormitories, and the regulations on video surveillance management, and establish a working mechanism for preventing, reporting and handling sexual assault.
It is worth mentioning that in order to protect students’ privacy and self-esteem, reduce comparisons, avoid discrimination, and ease the pressure of taking exams, the Regulations prohibit schools and teachers from disclosing students’ test scores and rankings, but require schools to take measures to facilitate parents to know academic information such as students’ scores.
More standardized! Disorderly cross-regional "pinching" enrollment will be restricted.
On May 17th, the newly revised Regulations on the Implementation of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education was issued and will be officially implemented on September 1st. The newly revised "Implementation Regulations" clearly states that public schools that implement compulsory education shall not establish or participate in the establishment of private schools, nor shall they be converted into private schools. Other public schools shall not hold or participate in the holding of for-profit private schools.
In addition, the Implementation Regulations also clarify that private schools should abide by the enrollment rules, maintain the enrollment order, and openly and fairly enroll students. Private schools that implement compulsory education shall not organize or organize entrance examinations for subject knowledge in disguised form, and shall not enroll students in advance. From the system, it limits the disorderly cross-regional competitive enrollment and pinching enrollment.
Safer! Law escorts "digital assets"
The Data Security Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC), which came into effect on September 1, 2021, provides a basis for the protection of important national data and the supervision of data security in various industries, which indicates that China has laws to follow in the field of data security.
The Data Security Law will play a positive role in the following aspects: First, strengthen the system construction in the field of data security; The second is to coordinate the development of digital economy and data security protection; The third is to guide industry departments to carry out data protection work, and clearly draw the "red line" of data activities.
More favorable! The cost of purchasing non-residential products has been reduced.
On August 11th, the 21st meeting of the 13th the NPC Standing Committee passed the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Deed Tax Law, which will come into force on September 1st, 2021.
It should be noted that the tax rate stipulated in the Deed Tax Law has not been raised, and the current tax rate remains unchanged. In addition, in accordance with the regulation requirements of "housing without speculation", "Deed Tax Law" clarifies that the State Council can exempt or reduce the deed tax on residents’ housing demand, which means that the current preferential deed tax policy will continue.
It is worth noting that the deed tax on apartments, office buildings and shops was levied at 4% in the past, and will be levied at 3% after September 1, and the cost of purchasing non-residential products will be reduced.
More stringent! The revised safety production law can impose a maximum fine of 100 million yuan.
On June 10th, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) voted to amend the Law on Work Safety in People’s Republic of China (PRC), and the revised Law on Work Safety will come into force on September 1st, 2021.
There are 42 amendments to the Production Safety Law, accounting for about one-third of the original provisions, and the amount of fines for illegal acts has generally increased from 200,000 yuan to 20 million yuan stipulated in the current law to 300,000 yuan to 100 million yuan; The amount of the accident fine for the main person in charge of the unit has increased from 30% to 80% of the annual income to 40% to 100%.
