Civil Servant Law

China’s top legislature voted to adopt the revised civil servant law as part of the efforts to promote civil service reform on December 29, 2018.

Lawmakers approved the revision at the end of a weeklong bimonthly session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee.

Civil servants’ reward and punishment systems have been improved in the new law, an official with the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee said.

The new law states that civil servants who perform well in certain