In delivering the Work Report of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee in the fifth session of the 13th NPC on March 8, Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, outlined the NPC’s legislative agenda for 2022. Li listed 33 pieces of legislation that will be formulated or amended in 2022, broadly divided into three categories concerning China’s socialist market economy system, China’s welfare, social, and environmental protection affairs, and matters of national security.