On November 8, the 12th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress voted to adopt the Energy Law of the People's Republic of China. This law has nine chapters, the main contents include general provisions, energy planning, energy development and utilization, energy market system, energy reserves and emergency response, energy science and technology innovation, supervision and management, legal responsibility, bylaws, etc., since January 1, 2025 shall come into force. The energy law provides that in order to promote high-quality development of energy, safeguard national energy security, promote economic and social green low-carbon transformation and sustainable development, actively and steadily promote carbon peak carbon neutral, to adapt to the overall construction of a modern socialist country, according to the Constitution, the formulation of energy law. Energy law based on China's energy resource endowment reality, adapt to the new situation of energy development, on the energy field basic major issues in the legal level to make provisions, is the energy field of basic, overarching law.
Jing Chunmei, Minister of Energy and Green Low Carbon Development Research Department of China Center for International Economic Exchanges, pointed out that the Energy Law has made up for the top-level design gap of energy laws and regulations. After the promulgation of the Energy Law, China will form a relatively complete and systematic legal system of energy with the Energy Law as the overarching law, the Electricity Law, the Coal Law, the Renewable Energy Law and other individual laws as the backbone, and administrative rules and regulations as the important components.
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