Legislative plan for 2017 revealed

On March 20, the State Council announced its legislative plan for 2017. According to the plan, the State Council will finish 22 legislative programs. Nine of them are aimed at improving people’s livelihoods and promoting harmony and stability in society, such as the regulations on express delivery, urban housing, and food safety. Most noteworthy of all the planned programs is the regulation on human hereditary resource management. The regulation will be drafted by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and it aims to make better use of the country’s human hereditary resources and better protect people’s rights to hereditary resources. the physically challenged unless they employ a certain percentage; according to the notice, more enterprises will be exempt from that charge, while a ceiling percentage is set for those that continue paying it. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, together with several other ministries, jointly issued a notice on March 22, launching special checks on elderly care homes nationwide to ensure their safety and quality. According to the notice, by the end of this year, over 50 percent of elderly care homes must offer medical services in various forms to senior residents. a guideline that supports and encourages “technical staff ” of some public institutions, mainly colleges and research institutions, to start businesses. According to the document, technical staff, referring to research professionals in science and technology areas, can keep their contracts with the public institutions for three years and get a basic salary when they leave their jobs to start businesses.