Changhao Wei is a Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School, where he focuses on China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC)—in particular, its legislative process and constitutional enforcement mechanisms. He also runs NPC Observer, a website that provides reporting, analysis, and original research on the NPC.
On 16 November 1957, China’s labour minister Ma Wenrui appeared before the country’s top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), with proposed updates to China’s retirement scheme. Faced with a deluge of secondary-school graduates but insufficient job openings, the government hoped to make it easier for older workers to retire (Literature […]
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Chinese Government created two forms of administrative detention to combat perceived social ills. The first, ‘custody and repatriation’ (C&R, 收容遣送), was used ‘as a coercive measure to manage the flow of migrant workers and undesirables into China’s urban centers’ (Hand 2006: 120). The other, known as ‘custody and education’ […]
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