Experts: Labor laws need update to cope with new challenges

Experts have called on legislators to update China's labor laws to keep pace with the emerging challenges to workers' rights that have arisen with the rapid expansion of the new economy.

The call followed the release on Tuesday of the latest Green Book of Population and Labor by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Population and Labor Economics.

The Green Book says the new economy grew by an average of 16 percent from 2007 to 2016, almost twice as fast as China's overall economic growth.