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Under the guidance of the policy of promoting socialist democracy andbuilding a sound socialist legal system formulated at the Third Plenary Sessionof the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party， the Na-tional People s Congress and its Standing Committee have， since 1979， enactedmany important laws. These laws have been compiled and published in succes-sion by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of theNational People s Congress of the People s Republic of China. In order to acquaint readers abroad with China s laws and with what Chinahas achieved in building a new legal system， the collections in Chinese entitledthe Laws of the People s Republic of China， covering the period of 1979 -2007， have been translated into English and published in nineteen volumes atthe Foreign Languages Press， the Science Press， and the Law Press respective-ly. We are now publishing， as Volume 20， the English edition of The Laws ofthe People s Republic of China （2008） at the Law Press. The publication notein the Chinese edition is not included.