Proposals opened to public scrutiny

Legislators have made great efforts to produce the draft of the general provisions of the civil law, according to Shi Hong, a leading official with the legal affairs commission of the NPC Standing Committee.

Following repeated calls for a civil code from legal professionals, the first step to its formulation began in March 2015, under the efforts of five institutes, including the Supreme People's Court and the NPC Standing Committee's legal affairs commission.

The draft was submitted to the Standing Committee, China's top legislative body, three times last year - in June, October and December - and on Wednesday it was submitted to the NPC for further discussion.