Pudong has hired a group of overseas legal experts as members of the district legislative expert pool for the first time. Legal | Pudong | Expert Pool
In order to create a higher-level rule of law government and a better legal business environment, Pudong launched several innovative reform measures at the first event of the series of promotion activities on comprehensively strengthening the construction of legal guarantees in the leading area on July 10. These measures include exploring the employment of foreign legal experts as legal consulting experts for the district committee and government, exploring the employment of foreign legal experts as members of the district legislative expert pool, and exploring the establishment of grassroots legislative contact points for the district government in the Shanghai representative office of foreign law firms and foreign-funded enterprises.
In the past two years, Pudong has fully played the role of a "legislative experimental field" by authorizing legislation from the central government, promoting the introduction of 16 regulations in the Pudong New Area, formulating and implementing 16 management measures, and providing strong legal guarantees for reform and innovation. Among them, legislative experts have played an important role. With the deepening of high-quality legislation in Pudong, the formulation of regulations and management measures in Pudong New Area needs to have a more international perspective, benchmark against the highest international standards, and strengthen the connection between international and domestic laws. On the basis of the existing legislative work expert pool members, Pudong New Area will add overseas legal experts with extensive professional knowledge, rich practical experience, and familiarity with international rules to provide advisory suggestions for Pudong to build a system that is connected with high standard international economic and trade rules. The district government has established the first batch of 18 grassroots legislative contact points at industry associations, associations, research institutes, foreign-funded enterprises, foreign-funded law firms, and other locations, and formed relevant institutional mechanisms to deepen democratic legislation and broaden the channels and ways for all sectors of society to participate in legislation in an orderly manner.
At the event, the "Several Provisions on Improving the Ecological Environment Protection System in Pudong New Area in Shanghai" passed by the Third Session of the 16th Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress on June 20th was also promoted. This is the third Pudong New Area regulation formulated around green ecology, following the "Several Provisions on the Development of Green Finance in Pudong New Area in Shanghai" and "Several Provisions on the Resource Utilization of Solid Waste in Pudong New Area in Shanghai". It is reported that this regulation carries the historical mission entrusted by Shanghai to Pudong to boldly practice in the field of ecological civilization construction. The "Regulations" clarify that Pudong New Area will include carbon peak and carbon neutrality in the overall economic and social development, establish and improve incentive and constraint mechanisms to reduce pollution emissions and greenhouse gas emissions, promote comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and make institutional innovations in "source prevention, process control, damage compensation, and accountability". Pudong will further introduce relevant policy supporting documents in conjunction with the Regulations, and accelerate the implementation of the first Pudong New Area regulation this year.
Zhu Zhisong, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Pudong New Area Committee, attended the event.